GHSA-23w4-rpc6-wpcc

Liferay Portal ReDoS with Role Name search in KaleoDesignerPortlet

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2025-43764

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.workflow.kaleo.designer.web	< 5.0.145	5.0.145

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Self-ReDoS (Regular expression Denial of Service) exists with Role Name search field of Kaleo Designer portlet JavaScript in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.131, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.1, 2024.Q3.0 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.1 through 2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.20 and 7.4 GA through update 92, which allows authenticated users with permissions to update Kaleo Workflows to enter a malicious Regex pattern causing their browser to hang for a very long time.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43764 advisory
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/12a076172494707748325836b3d5236507be0490 web
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal web
https://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-18148 web
https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43764 web