GHSA-f3hf-r62c-mfrj
Liferay Portal: Missing Rate Limiting in GraphQL Endpoint Enables Resource Exhaustion Attack
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.api | >= 8.0.2, < 40.2.0 | 40.2.0 |
| Maven | com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl | >= 5.0.7, < 5.0.105 | 5.0.105 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
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.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43796
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/2e4adf041e31f3474a14c29b7c135693f6529400
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/2f74f23982fb03238f9b4ae145c33a9c1084f07e
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/3780804b0d8f4f14bfca470a3e2e662bc6cef588
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/8344aec3bebcd2ca409794523d5db5be6047c3dd
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/83e77963499d4d3e7cc82cc48e63c992f6f29a6d
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/8dda4adc0e9e7b6f82d4b3959592cad61640309b
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
- https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43796
- http://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/8f7eb98e05a5ea6961346ecc21fd73e4b46bba99