Resource exhaustion in Liferay Enterprise Portal - CVE-2022-42124
Published: October 19, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU68491
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-42124
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in LayoutPageTemplateEntryUpgradeProcess in the "name" field. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Liferay Enterprise Portal
How to mitigate CVE-2022-42124
Install updates from vendor's website.
Liferay Enterprise Portal - update to 7.4.3.5 ga5