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SCA: security update for com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433394

Description

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

 - 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.
 (CVE-2021-33335)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433394

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33335

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33335