Resource exhaustion in Liferay Digital Experience Platform
CVE-2025-62260
Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.99, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4, 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 35, and older unsupported versions does not limit the number of objects returned from Headless API requests, which allows remote attackers to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on the application by executing a request that returns a large number of objects.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
EPSS: 0.004 (28.6th 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, 2023.q3.1
- Liferay Dxp — versions 7.3.10, 7.4.13, 2023.Q3.1
- Liferay Liferay_portal
- Liferay Portal — versions 7.4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@liferay.com (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2025-62260?
- CVE-2025-62260 is a high-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-10-27.
- How severe is CVE-2025-62260?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.