CVE-2022-42131 Improper Certificate Validation in Liferay Portal

What is CVE-2022-42131?

CVE-2022-42131 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 15 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Certain Liferay products are affected by: Missing SSL Certificate Validation in the Dynamic Data Mapping module's REST data providers. This affects Liferay Portal 7.1.0 through 7.4.2 and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 27, 7.2 before fix pack 17, and 7.3 before service pack 3.

Weakness: CWE-295

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-42131?

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

Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2022-42131?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom to 7.4.3.4 or later.

Is CVE-2022-42131 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-42131 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
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-liferay-2022-42131, GHSA-cx84-43xc-3gm2.