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)

Published · last modified .

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (30.0th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 30.0% 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-2025-62260: held from 0.004 to 0.004.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

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.