Advisory record · GHSA-2hm7-r8f3-423h

Liferay Portal vulnerable to path traversal and denial-of-service in the ComboServlet

CVSS 6.9 MediumEPSS 0.0050 · 43rd percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 30 Sept 2025, 00:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bomMaven>=7.4.0-ga1, <7.4.3.108-ga1087.4.3.108-ga108
com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.implMaven<96.0.096.0.0
Identifiers
GHSA-2hm7-r8f3-423h · CVE-2025-43813
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Published
30 Sept 2025
Updated
30 Sept 2025

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Liferay Portal (release.portal.bom 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.107, and com.liferay.portal.impl before 96.0.0) is vulnerable to path traversal and denial-of-service in its ComboServlet. A remote attacker can use crafted query strings in a URL to read arbitrary CSS and JS files and load files repeatedly. Upgrade release.portal.bom to 7.4.3.108-ga108 or com.liferay.portal.impl to 96.0.0.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.9 Medium 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (Liferay)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0050, the 43rd percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.