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High · 7.1 CVE-2025-43796 EUVD-2025-29072GHSA-f3hf-r62c-mfrj

Liferay Portal: Missing Rate Limiting in GraphQL Endpoint Enables Resource Exhaustion Attack

Published Sep 12, 2025 · Updated Sep 12, 2025 · Assigned by Liferay

Description

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Liferay Portal 7.4.0 – ≤ 7.4.3.101 —
Liferay DXP 7.3.10 – ≤ 7.3.10-u35, 7.4.13 – ≤ 7.4.13-u92, 2023.Q3.0 – ≤ 2023.Q3.4 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.api >= 8.0.2, < 40.2.0 40.2.0 GHSA-f3hf-r62c-mfrj
Maven com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl >= 5.0.7, < 5.0.105 5.0.105 GHSA-f3hf-r62c-mfrj

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