SCA: security update for com.liferay.commerce:com.liferay.commerce.account.web, com.liferay.portal:portal-impl, com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, com.liferay:com.liferay.login.web, com.liferay:com.liferay.users.admin.web (GHSA-mwhf-6mjm-6w3h)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 428651

Description

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

- 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. (CVE-2021-29038)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mwhf-6mjm-6w3h

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428651

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29038

cwe: CWE-640