CVE-2025-43819 Liferay Portal and DXP does not properly expire sessions

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

Remote attackers can reuse expired sessions via the SLO API to gain unauthorized access to user accounts.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2025-43819?

CVE-2025-43819 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 24 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in the Liferay Portal 7.4.3.121 through 7.3.3.131, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.3, 2024.Q3.1 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.0 through 2024.Q2.13, and 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.12 is allow an remote non-authenticated attacker to reuse old user session by SLO API

Weakness: CWE-613

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43819?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay:com.liferay.saml.impl. It affects 2 products.

PackageAffectedFixed in
com.liferay:com.liferay.saml.impl MavenAll versions5.0.51
com.liferay:com.liferay.saml.impl MavenAll versions5.0.51

Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2025-43819?

Upgrade com.liferay:com.liferay.saml.impl to 5.0.51 or later.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2025-43819 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43819 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Liferay Digital Experience Platform vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-rpx3-f938-xj5q.

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