Liferay Portal 7.4 GraphQL Unbounded Query DoS
CVE-2025-43796 Published on September 12, 2025
Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.101, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.0 through 2023.Q3.4, 7.4 GA through update 92 and 7.3 GA though update 35 does not limit the number of objects returned from a GraphQL queries, which allows remote attackers to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on the application by executing queries that return a large number of objects.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-43796 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity and availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
CVE-2025-43796 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-43796
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Affected Versions
Liferay Portal:- Version 7.4.0, <= 7.4.3.101 is affected.
- Version 7.3.10, <= 7.3.10-u35 is affected.
- Version 7.4.13, <= 7.4.13-u92 is affected.
- Version 2023.Q3.0, <= 2023.Q3.4 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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