GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m

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    GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m

    Published: 24 May 2022Last Modified: 28 May 2025

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

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33335, https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal, https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17103, https://web.archive.org/web/20220828222916/https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/120747906

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom

    Purl: pkg:maven/com.liferay.portal/release.portal.bom

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 7.0.3
    Fixed -7.3.5

    Affected versions

    7.0.6
    7.0.6-1
    7.0.6-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m | CVE-DB