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SCA: security update for com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.impl (GHSA-jp3m-vh3g-6ggp)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428388

Description

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

 - The Portal Security module in Liferay Portal 7.2.1 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 90,
 7.1 before fix pack 17 and 7.2 before fix pack 5 does not correctly import users from LDAP, which allows
 remote attackers to prevent a legitimate user from authenticating by attempting to sign in as a user that
 exist in LDAP. (CVE-2021-38266)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jp3m-vh3g-6ggp

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 428388

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/15/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-38266

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:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-38266