SCA: security update for com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl (GHSA-hrqm-qpw9-w8rv)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 435434

Description

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

- A memory leak in the headless API for StructuredContents in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.119, and
older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.5, 2023.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.10,
2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.10, 7.4 GA through update 92, and older unsupported versions allows an attacker
to cause server unavailability (denial of service) via repeatedly calling the API endpoint.
(CVE-2025-43816)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hrqm-qpw9-w8rv

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 435434

Version: Revision 1.12

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/26/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.5

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:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-43816

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43816

cwe: CWE-401