SCA: security update for com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl, com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (GHSA-xcj6-xpjg-c4xr)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 435846

Description

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

- Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.99, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.1 through
2023.Q3.4, 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 34, and older unsupported versions stores
password reset tokens in plain text, which allows attackers with access to the database to obtain the
token, reset a user’s password and take over the user’s account. (CVE-2025-62261)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xcj6-xpjg-c4xr

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 435846

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.62

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-62261

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-62261

cwe: CWE-312