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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2023-33949 json

Insecure Default Initialization In Liferay Portal

published 2023-05-24 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also BIT-liferay-2023-33949 , EUVD-2023-1543 , GHSA-g9mr-9xfc-4gf7

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Liferay Portal 7.3.0 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.2 and earlier the default configuration does not require users to verify their email address, which allows remote attackers to create accounts using fake email addresses or email addresses which they don't control. The portal property `company.security.strangers.verify` should be set to true.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom 7.3.1
  • Liferay DXP 7.3.10

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom
>=7.0.0, <7.3.1
7.3.1
bitnami liferay
>=7.0.0, <=7.0.0
>=7.1.0, <=7.1.0
>=7.2.0, <=7.2.0
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Liferay Portal
  • Liferay DXP

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

References

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.