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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2025-43736
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2025-43736
Aliases CVE-2025-43736
GHSA-cg99-m88x-422c
Summary Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP have a Denial Of Service via File Upload (DOS) vulnerability A Denial Of Service via File Upload (DOS) vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.0 through 7.4.3.132, Liferay DXP 2025.Q1.0 through 2025.Q1.8, 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.7, 2024.Q3.0 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.0 through 2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.16 and 7.4 GA through update 92 allows a user to upload a profile picture of more than 300kb into a user profile. This size is more than the noted max 300kb size. This extra data can significantly slow down the Liferay service.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2025-43736.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/ab8932bee29df7df377c468f662d55e624d9390d
https://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-18220
CVE-2025-43736 https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43736
CVE-2025-43736 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43736
GHSA-cg99-m88x-422c https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cg99-m88x-422c
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:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2025-43736.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-08-12T18:15:44Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/43xxx/CVE-2025-43736.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-43736

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]