Advisory record · GHSA-hrqm-qpw9-w8rv

Liferay Portal and DXP vulnerable to a memory leak

CVSS 6.9 MediumEPSS 0.0034 · 27th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 25 Sept 2025, 21:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.implMaven<5.0.1155.0.115
Identifiers
GHSA-hrqm-qpw9-w8rv · CVE-2025-43816
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-401
Published
25 Sept 2025
Updated
17 Dec 2025

Machine-written summary

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

A memory leak in the headless API for StructuredContents in Liferay Portal and DXP affects package com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl versions before 5.0.115. An attacker who can repeatedly call the API endpoint can exhaust server memory and make the server unavailable (denial of service). Upgrade com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl to version 5.0.115 or later.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.9 Medium 4.0 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 CNA (Liferay)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0034, the 27th percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:09 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:09 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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