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CVE-2021-33335 json

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Has Company Administrator Accounts Vulnerable to Takeovers

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m , EUVD-2021-20043

cvss
7.2
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.0.3 through 7.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 9 allows remote authenticated users with permission to update/edit users to take over a company administrator user account by editing the company administrator user.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom 7.3.5
  • maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom 7.1.10.fp20, 7.2.10.fp9
  • liferay liferay_portal 7.3.5

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Exploit prediction

1.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom
>=7.0.3, <7.3.5
7.3.5
maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom
>=7.1.0, <7.1.10.fp20
>=7.2.0, <7.2.10.fp9
7.1.10.fp20
7.2.10.fp9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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