CVE-2021-33335 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Has Company Administrator Accounts Vulnerable to Takeovers

What is CVE-2021-33335?

CVE-2021-33335 is a high-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 3 Aug 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-33335?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom and com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom. It affects 2 products.

Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2021-33335?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom to a fixed version for your release line: 7.1.10.fp20 or 7.2.10.fp9.

Is CVE-2021-33335 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-33335 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

• CVE-2024-8980 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to CSRF in the Script Console Critical 9.6
• CVE-2023-42496 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6
• CVE-2023-42498 Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-25147 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-26269 Liferay Portal Frontend JS module's portlet.js and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6

All Liferay Digital Experience Platform vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m.