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Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Does Not Obfuscate Password Reminder Answers

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 29, 2025

Package

maven com.liferay.commerce:com.liferay.commerce.account.web (Maven)

Affected versions

< 3.0.7

Patched versions

3.0.7
maven com.liferay.portal:portal-impl (Maven)
< 5.18.4
5.18.4
maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom (Maven)
< 7.2.10.fp17
>= 7.3.0, < 7.3.10.fp1
7.2.10.fp17
7.3.10.fp1
maven com.liferay:com.liferay.login.web (Maven)
< 5.0.18
5.0.18
maven com.liferay:com.liferay.users.admin.web (Maven)
< 5.0.33
5.0.33

Description

In Liferay Impl before 5.18.4, Liferay Users Admin Web before 5.0.33, Liferay Login Web before 5.0.18, and Liferay Commerce Account Web before 3.0.7 from Liferay Portal (7.2.0 through 7.3.5), and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before fix pack 1, 7.2 before fix pack 17, and older unsupported versions does not obfuscate password reminder answers on the page, which allows attackers to use man-in-the-middle or shoulder surfing attacks to steal user's password reminder answers.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 20, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 21, 2024
Reviewed Jul 29, 2025
Last updated Jul 29, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(27th percentile)

Weaknesses

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2021-29038

GHSA ID

GHSA-mwhf-6mjm-6w3h

Source code

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