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CVE-2025-43736

A Denial Of Service via File Upload (DOS) vulnerability in the Liferay Portal 7.4.3.0 through 7.4.3.132, and Liferay DXP

A Denial Of Service via File Upload (DOS) vulnerability in the Liferay Portal 7.4.3.0 through 7.4.3.132, and 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 more than 300kb profile picture into the user profile. This size more than the noted max 300kb size. This extra amount of data can make Liferay slower.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.00236
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Weakness Classification

CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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Affected Products & Versions

7
liferay digital experience platform>= 2024.q1.1 and <= 2024.q1.16
liferay digital experience platform>= 2024.Q2.1 and <= 2024.Q2.13
liferay digital experience platform>= 2024.q3.1 and <= 2024.q3.13
liferay digital experience platform>= 2024.q4.0 and <= 2024.q4.7
liferay digital experience platform>= 2025.q1.0 and <= 2025.q1.8
liferay digital experience platformall versions
liferay portal>= 7.4.3.0 and <= 7.4.3.132
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Affected Packages

6
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom MODERATE fixed in 2025.Q1.9
Maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom MODERATE
Maven com.liferay:com.liferay.account.admin.web MODERATE fixed in 2.0.138
Maven com.liferay:com.liferay.frontend.taglib MODERATE fixed in 13.10.0
Maven com.liferay:com.liferay.image.uploader.web MODERATE fixed in 5.0.56
Maven com.liferay:com.liferay.users.admin.web MODERATE fixed in 11.0.27
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Scoring & Timeline

4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v3.1 · security@liferay.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD12 Aug 2025 · 11:15 AM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
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References & Sources

1
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43736Vendor Advisory
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