CVE-2025-43796
Liferay Portal: Missing Rate Limiting in GraphQL Endpoint Enables Resource Exhaustion Attack
EPSS 0.23%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2025-43796
To remediate CVE-2025-43796, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Maven/com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.api—upgrade to 40.2.0 or later
- —upgrade to 5.0.105 or later
Is CVE-2025-43796 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- >= 8.0.2, < 40.2.0
- >= 5.0.7, < 5.0.105
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |