CVE-2024-26268 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP User Enumeration Vulnerability

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

Remote attackers can enumerate valid user accounts by analyzing response time differences in Liferay Portal requests.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2024-26268?

CVE-2024-26268 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 20 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

User enumeration vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.2.0 through 7.4.3.26, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 27, 7.3 before update 8, 7.2 before fix pack 20, and older unsupported versions allows remote attackers to determine if an account exist in the application by comparing the request's response time.

Weakness: CWE-203

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26268?

8 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.

PackageAffectedFixed in
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom MavenAll versions7.2.10.fp20
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom MavenAll versions7.2.10.fp20
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom MavenFrom 7.3.07.3.10.u8
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom MavenFrom 7.3.07.3.10.u8
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom MavenFrom 7.4.07.4.13.u27
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom MavenFrom 7.4.07.4.13.u27
2 more packages
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom MavenFrom 7.2.07.4.3.27-ga27
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom MavenFrom 7.2.07.4.3.27-ga27

Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2024-26268?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom to a fixed version for your release line: 7.2.10.fp20, 7.3.10.u8 or 7.4.13.u27.

Is CVE-2024-26268 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26268 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Liferay Digital Experience Platform vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-qm43-g2xj-hvg5.

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