CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-38266

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-03-02 Modified 2026-07-09 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-03-02
Last modified
2026-07-09
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The Portal Security module in Liferay Portal 7.2.1 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 90, 7.1 before fix pack 17 and 7.2 before fix pack 5 does not correctly import users from LDAP, which allows remote attackers to prevent a legitimate user from authenticating by attempting to sign in as a user that exist in LDAP.

Affected configurations

• liferay liferay portal (<= 7.2.1) • liferay digital experience platform 7.0 • liferay digital experience platform 7.1 • liferay digital experience platform 7.2

References