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Insecure Default Initialization In Liferay Portal

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 6, 2023

Package

maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 7.0.0, < 7.3.1

Patched versions

7.3.1

Description

In Liferay Portal 7.3.0 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.2 and earlier the default configuration does not require users to verify their email address, which allows remote attackers to create accounts using fake email addresses or email addresses which they don't control. The portal property company.security.strangers.verify should be set to true.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 24, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2023
Reviewed May 24, 2023
Last updated Nov 6, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.111%
(45th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-33949

GHSA ID

GHSA-g9mr-9xfc-4gf7

Source code

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