Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Does Not Obfuscate Password Reminder Answers

published 2024-02-20 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-mwhf-6mjm-6w3h , EUVD-2021-15684

cvss: 6.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits: 0; none known

Liferay Portal 7.2.0 through 7.3.5, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before fix pack 1, 7.2 before fix pack 17, and older unsupported versions does not obfuscate password reminder answers on the page, which allows attackers to use man-in-the-middle or shoulder surfing attacks to steal user's password reminder answers.

Patch / fix

fixed in 7 links 1

maven com.liferay.portal:portal-impl 5.18.4
maven com.liferay:com.liferay.users.admin.web 5.0.33
maven com.liferay:com.liferay.login.web 5.0.18
maven com.liferay.commerce:com.liferay.commerce.account.web 3.0.7
maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom 7.2.10.fp17, 7.3.10.fp1
liferay digital_experience_platform 7.2
liferay liferay_portal 7.3.6

github.com/liferay/liferay-portal@5e2da78 commit

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-02-22)

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CNA	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
GitHub	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	com.liferay.portal:portal-impl	<5.18.4	5.18.4
maven	com.liferay:com.liferay.users.admin.web	<5.0.33	5.0.33
maven	com.liferay:com.liferay.login.web	<5.0.18	5.0.18
maven	com.liferay.commerce:com.liferay.commerce.account.web	<3.0.7	3.0.7
maven	com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom	<7.2.10.fp17 >=7.3.0, <7.3.10.fp1	7.2.10.fp17 7.3.10.fp1

Classification

Weakness

CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

References

github.com /liferay/liferay-portal/commit/5e2da784aeefce64107abd0411590db2b55faf0b
web
liferay.dev /portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2021-29038
web, vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29038
advisory
github.com /liferay/liferay-portal
package

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary