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High · 7.5 CVE-2021-38266 BIT-liferay-2021-38266EUVD-2021-24724GHSA-jp3m-vh3g-6ggp

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP fails to properly import users from LDAP

Published Mar 2, 2022 · Updated Jul 9, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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 before fix pack 5 does not correctly import users from LDAP, which allows remote attackers to prevent a legitimate user from authenticating by attempting to sign in as a user that exist in LDAP.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.impl < 2.0.19 2.0.19 GHSA-jp3m-vh3g-6ggp
Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom < 7.3.0-ga1 7.3.0-ga1 GHSA-jp3m-vh3g-6ggp

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