Vulnerability · Published May 24, 2023 · Assigned by Liferay

CVE-2023-33950

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity regular-expression denial of service in DXP from Liferay. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 39.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Pattern Redirects in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.48 through 7.4.3.76, and Liferay DXP 7.4 update 48 through 76 allows regular expressions that are vulnerable to ReDoS attacks to be used as patterns, which allows remote attackers to consume an excessive amount of server resources via crafted request URLs.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Mavencom.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom7.4.3.77GHSA-chrc-q6v3-jfv8

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Liferay Portal 7.4.3.48 – through 7.4.3.76
Liferay DXP 7.4.13.u48 – through 7.4.13.u76

Weakness: CWE-1333 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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