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SCA: security update for com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (GHSA-87x7-pwrx-jch7)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433501

Description

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

 - The JSON web services in Liferay Portal 7.3.4 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 97, 7.1
 before fix pack 20 and 7.2 before fix pack 10 may provide overly verbose error messages, which allows
 remote attackers to use the contents of error messages to help launch another, more focused attacks via
 crafted inputs. (CVE-2021-29040)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-87x7-pwrx-jch7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433501

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: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29040

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29040

cwe: CWE-209