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CVE-2021-33335

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.0.3 through 7.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 9 allows remote authenticated users with permission to update/edit users to take over a company administrator user account by editing the company administrator user.

Published

2021-08-03T22:15:09.137

Last Modified

2025-05-13T18:17:51.450

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.2 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-863

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.1	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.2	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.2	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.2	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.2	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.2	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.2	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.2	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.2	Yes
Application	liferay	digital_experience_platform	7.2	Yes
Application	liferay	liferay_portal	< 7.3.5	Yes

References

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17103 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/120747906 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17103 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/120747906 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)