GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-jp3m-vh3g-6ggp Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP fails to properly import users from LDAP
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-38266
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.impl, com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Reviewed
- 2025-07-14
Affected packages
• Maven com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.impl: < 2.0.19 → fixed in 2.0.19
• Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom: < 7.3.0-ga1 → fixed in 7.3.0-ga1
Description
Security LDAP Implementation before 2.0.16 from Liferay Portal through v7.2.1 and Liferay DXP through v7.2 does not correctly import users from LDAP, allowing remote attackers to prevent a legitimate user from authenticating by attempting to sign in as a user that exists in LDAP.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-38266 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… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38266 advisory
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/c3d1e3c7b18be0791360bb57428ea8234bcbb736 web
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal package
- https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17191 web
- https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2021-38266?p_r_p_assetEntryId=121611673&_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fliferay.dev%3A443%2Fportal%2Fsecurity%2Fknown-vulnerabilities%3Fp_p_id%3Dcom_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_r_p_assetEntryId%3D121611673%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_cur%3D0%26p_r_p_resetCur%3Dfalse web