CVE-2025-43816

Sept. 26, 2025, 2:32 p.m.

6.9
Medium

Description

A memory leak in the headless API for StructuredContents in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.119, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.5, 2023.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.10, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.10, 7.4 GA through update 92, and older unsupported versions allows an attacker to cause server unavailability (denial of service) via repeatedly calling the API endpoint.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Liferay
  • Liferay Portal
  • Liferay Dxp
  • 7.4.0-7.4.3.119, 7.4
  • 2024.Q1.1-2024.Q1.5, 2024.Q4.0-2024.Q4.10, 2023.Q3.1-2023.Q3.10

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-401
Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a liferay liferay_portal 7.4.0-7.4.3.119 / / / / / / /
a liferay liferay_dxp 2024.Q1.1-2024.Q1.5 / / / / / / /
a liferay liferay_dxp 2024.Q4.0-2024.Q4.10 / / / / / / /
a liferay liferay_dxp 2023.Q3.1-2023.Q3.10 / / / / / / /
a liferay liferay_portal 7.4 92 / / / / / /

References

https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43816

Tags

CWE-401
security@liferay.com
2025-09-25
CVE-2025-43816

CVSS Score

6.9 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • User Interaction: ACTIVE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: Sept. 25, 2025, 8:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Sept. 26, 2025, 2:32 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@liferay.com

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