TI-2025-28360 Aliases CVE-2025-43772 GHSA-j4fw-4mhr-hc45

Uncontrolled resource consumption in Liferay Portal

LOW 32CWE-400Published 2025-09-04 · Updated 2025-09-04

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Attack requirements: None
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

Kaleo Forms Admin in Liferay Portal 7.0.0 through 7.4.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.4 GA, 7.3 GA through update 27, and older unsupported versions does not restrict the saving of request parameters in the portlet session, which allows remote attackers to consume system memory leading to denial-of-service (DoS) conditions via crafted HTTP request.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00517 44th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.workflow.kaleo.forms.web (Maven): 5.0.29

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Liferay	Portal	7.0.0 – 7.4.3.5	—	No fix listed	CNA
Liferay	DXP	6.2.0 – portal-173; 7.0.10 – de-102; 7.1.10 – dxp-28; 7.2.10 – dxp-20; 7.3.10 – 7.3.10-u27; 7.4.13 – 7.4.13-u1	—	No fix listed	CNA
—	com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.workflow.kaleo.forms.web (Maven)	before 5.0.29	5.0.29	Patch available	GHSA-j4fw-4mhr-hc45

Portal VendorLiferay Affected 7.0.0 – 7.4.3.5 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
DXP VendorLiferay Affected 6.2.0 – portal-173; 7.0.10 – de-102; 7.1.10 – dxp-28; 7.2.10 – dxp-20; 7.3.10 – 7.3.10-u27; 7.4.13 – 7.4.13-u1 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.workflow.kaleo.forms.web (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 5.0.29 Fixed in 5.0.29 Patch available GHSA-j4fw-4mhr-hc45

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform::::::::	—	—	Liferay

cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·Liferay

Remediation

Fix · GHSA-j4fw-4mhr-hc45 com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.workflow.kaleo.forms.web (Maven) Fixed in 5.0.29 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-43772
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-j4fw-4mhr-hc45

References

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43772

Other 5

TI-2020-06440 Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Liferay Portal prior to 7.2.1 CE GA2 allows remote… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2019-12596 Liferay Portal CE 6.2.5 allows remote command execution because of deserialization of a JSON payload. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2021-13252 Liferay Portal 6.2.5 allows Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=/ requests when… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2022-18349 A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Blog module - add new topic… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
TI-2022-18348 A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Document and Media module - file upload… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
TI-2022-20404 A SQL injection vulnerability in the Friendly Url module in Liferay Portal 7.3.7, and… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8

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Sources

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