Resource exhaustion in Liferay Digital Experience Platform
CVE-2025-43796
Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.101, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.0 through 2023.Q3.4, 7.4 GA through update 92 and 7.3 GA though update 35 does not limit the number of objects returned from a GraphQL queries, which allows remote attackers to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on the application by executing queries that return a large number of objects.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
EPSS: 0.003 (26.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Liferay Digital_experience_platform — versions 7.3, 7.4
- Liferay Dxp — versions 7.3.10, 7.4.13, 2023.Q3.0
- Liferay Liferay_portal
- Liferay Portal — versions 7.4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- security@liferay.com (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2025-43796?
- CVE-2025-43796 is a high-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-09-12.
- How severe is CVE-2025-43796?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2025-43796 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.