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Advisory details: github_osv / GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m
Advisory ID github_osv/GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m
Aliases CVE-2021-33335
Summary Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Has Company Administrator Accounts Vulnerable to Takeovers Privilege escalation vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.0.3 through 7.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 9 allows remote authenticated users with permission to update/edit users to take over a company administrator user account by editing the company administrator user.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.5
Risk 3.2
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 7.2 https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m/GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m.json
generic_textual HIGH
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17103
https://web.archive.org/web/20220828222916/https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/120747906
CVE-2021-33335 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33335
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m/GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

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none

low

high

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required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

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high

low

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There are no SSVC decisions available.