What is CVE-2025-43736?

CVE-2025-43736 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-08-12.

How severe is CVE-2025-43736?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

CVE-2025-43736

A Denial Of Service via File Upload (DOS) vulnerability in the Liferay Portal 7.4.3.0 through 7.4.3.132, and Liferay DXP 2025.Q1.0 through 2025.Q1.8, 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.7, 2024.Q3.0 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.0 through 2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.16 and 7.4 GA through update 92 allows a user to upload more than 300kb profile picture into the user profile. This size more than the noted max 300kb size. This extra amount of data can make Liferay slower.

EPSS: 0.003 (20.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Liferay Digital_experience_platform — versions 7.4
Liferay Dxp — versions 7.4.13, 2024.Q1.1, 2024Q2.0
Liferay Liferay_portal
Liferay Portal — versions 7.4.3.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

security@liferay.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-43736?: CVE-2025-43736 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-08-12.
How severe is CVE-2025-43736?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.