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SCA: security update for com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (GHSA-g9mr-9xfc-4gf7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415035

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In Liferay Portal 7.3.0 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.2 and earlier the default configuration does not
 require users to verify their email address, which allows remote attackers to create accounts using fake
 email addresses or email addresses which they don't control. The portal property
 `company.security.strangers.verify` should be set to true. (CVE-2023-33949)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g9mr-9xfc-4gf7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415035

Version: Revision 1.13

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-33949

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-33949