CVE-2021-33335

high

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.0.3 through 7.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 9 allows remote authenticated users with permission to update/edit users to take over a company administrator user account by editing the company administrator user.

References

https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/120747906

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17103

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-08-03

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00634