What is CVE-2021-29040?

CVE-2021-29040 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2021-05-16.

How severe is CVE-2021-29040?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

CVE-2021-29040

The JSON web services in Liferay Portal 7.3.4 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 97, 7.1 before fix pack 20 and 7.2 before fix pack 10 may provide overly verbose error messages, which allows remote attackers to use the contents of error messages to help launch another, more focused attacks via crafted inputs.

EPSS: 0.011 (61.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Liferay Digital_experience_platform — versions 7.0, 7.1, 7.2
Liferay Liferay_portal
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-209 — Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

References

af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-29040?: CVE-2021-29040 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2021-05-16.
How severe is CVE-2021-29040?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.