Vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

CVE-2023-33950

Pattern Redirects in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.48 through 7.4.3.76, and Liferay DXP 7.4 update 48 through 76 allows regular expressions that are vulnerable to ReDoS attacks to be used as patterns, which allows remote attackers to consume an excessive amount of server resources via crafted request URLs.

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (58.8th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 59th percentile — 58.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2023-33950: held from 0.009 to 0.009.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-33950?
CVE-2023-33950 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-05-24.
How severe is CVE-2023-33950?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.