CVE-2025-43786 Liferay Portal exposes ERC which can lead to exploit the time response attack
Attackers can enumerate existing ERCs in Liferay Portal by analyzing response times, potentially revealing sensitive application state information.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-43786?
CVE-2025-43786 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 9 Sep 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Enumeration of ERC from object entry in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.128, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q3.0 through 2024.Q3.1, 2024.Q2.0 through 2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.12, 2023.Q4.0 and 7.4 GA through update 92 allow attackers to determine existent ERC in the application by exploit the time response.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43786?
6 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay:com.liferay.headless.admin.workflow.impl, com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl and com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.workflow.api. It affects 2 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
com.liferay:com.liferay.headless.admin.workflow.impl Maven | From 5.0.4 | 5.0.83 |
com.liferay:com.liferay.headless.admin.workflow.impl Maven | From 5.0.4 | 5.0.83 |
com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl Maven | From 5.0.7 | 5.0.127 |
com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl Maven | From 5.0.7 | 5.0.127 |
com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.workflow.api Maven | From 7.0.1 | 11.0.1 |
com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.workflow.api Maven | From 7.0.1 | 11.0.1 |
Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.
How do I fix CVE-2025-43786?
Upgrade com.liferay:com.liferay.headless.admin.workflow.impl to 5.0.83 or later.
Is CVE-2025-43786 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43786 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
- CVE-2023-42496 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting
- CVE-2023-42498 Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting
- CVE-2024-25147 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
- CVE-2024-26269 Liferay Portal Frontend JS module's portlet.js and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9p7x-8c57-4pqv.