high7.1
CVE-2025-43796
Liferay Portal: Missing Rate Limiting in GraphQL Endpoint Enables Resource Exhaustion Attack
Impact
Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.101, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.0 through 2023.Q3.4, 7.4 GA through update 92 and 7.3 GA though update 35 does not limit the number of objects returned from a GraphQL queries, which allows remote attackers to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on the application by executing queries that return a large number of objects.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven | com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.api | >= 8.0.2, < 40.2.0 | 40.2.0 |
| maven | com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl | >= 5.0.7, < 5.0.105 | 5.0.105 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Liferay | Digital Experience Platform | from 2023.Q3.0 before 2023.Q3.5 Versions 7.3, 7.4 |
| Liferay | Liferay Portal | from 7.4.0 before 7.4.3.102 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43796
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f3hf-r62c-mfrj
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43796
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/2e4adf041e31f3474a14c29b7c135693f6529400
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/2f74f23982fb03238f9b4ae145c33a9c1084f07e
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/3780804b0d8f4f14bfca470a3e2e662bc6cef588
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/8344aec3bebcd2ca409794523d5db5be6047c3dd
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/83e77963499d4d3e7cc82cc48e63c992f6f29a6d
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/8dda4adc0e9e7b6f82d4b3959592cad61640309b
- http://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/8f7eb98e05a5ea6961346ecc21fd73e4b46bba99