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'Authentication Search Filter' for Users in LDAP

Issue At the moment, we are using LDAP server connection to authenticate our users. Our question is: in which moment the query to authenticate users is executed? More exactly, when the field 'Authentication Search...

Tomcat Vulnerability Impact (CVE-2023-28708)

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue...

Are URLs that display/download Liferay JS information a vulnerability?

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Issue Some monitoring tools may identify certain URLs that are accessible during routine scans that should not have allowed access. Among the URLs that are typically detected are URLs that can download Liferay's JS...

What is the user password algorithm and format of the stored passwords?

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Issue We would like to understand the formatting of passwords as they're saved in Liferay. What algorithm, salt, and hash format is being used to store passwords? Environment DXP 7.1 Resolution Example Password:...

When trying to access a user's private page, a "404 Page Not Found" populates instead of the Login prompt

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Issue When trying to access a user's private page, we are transferred to a "404 Page Not Found" error page instead of the Login page that we were expecting. Environment DXP 7.4 Quarterly Release Resolution Not being...

Web Server keeps asking for basic authentication when using a Client Extension that makes a request via OAuth to Liferay API

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Issue A Web Server before the Liferay environment is configured with Basic Auth. Liferay uses a Client Extension (CX) that makes a request to a Liferay API using OAuth. When the page using the CX is loaded, the Web...

Microsoft Azure Key Vault with Liferay DB

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Issue Can we use Azure Key Vault with DB setup configuration in Liferay instead of having it in plain text in the properties file? Is there any way to configure the DB in Liferay using Azure Key Vault? How we can use...

'Email Account Activity: New Sign-In detected for your account' received which is an unwanted email

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Issue Receiving unwanted email notifications like "Your email account abc@xyz.org.in was signed into from a new location, device, browser, or application" from GoDaddy. Below are the details received: From:...

Service Organization Control (SOC) -1 Type 2 report

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Issue Service Organization Control (SOC) -1 Type 2 report for auditing purposes. Environment Liferay DXP Resolution The SOC-1 report focuses on financial controls and their evaluation and this reporting is not...

Liferay's OpenID Connect implementation does not account for language variations for ui_locales

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Issue Liferay's OpenID Connect implementation does not account for language variations for ui_locales. For example, Selecting English (United States) on Liferay sets ui_locales to en. Selecting Chinese (either Traditional...

A blank SAML redirect screen is seen even with redirect message disabled

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Issue A blank intermediary page (showing "Please select your identity provider" title and /portal/c/portal/login?redirect=%2Fportal%2F&refererPlid=[sanitized]&p_l_id=[sanitized] URL) is being seen even with the hotfix...

Polyfill.io Vulnerability: Is Liferay affected?

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Issue An attribute polyfill:true is observed in the source code of the website. Does it have anything to do with the domain 'https://polyfill.io'? Is Liferay affected by the Polyfill.js vulnerability? ...

Enable/Disable Multi-Factor Authentication

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Issue If there is any problem related with the way two-factor is working or do you simply want to deactivate it for some reason. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 2023 Q1 - 2023 Q4 2024 Q1 Resolution There are two...

Provide other permissions to Guest user beside just view permission

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Issue Can users give permission to the guest users to use the headless API to create, update, delete, etc. for documents & media, besides just the VIEW permission? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution These...

Can you add a theme or fragments to action pages?

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Issue How do I add fragments to action pages like /c/portal/update_password and /c/portal/update_reminder_query? Our theme reverts on utility/action pages /c/ When a user is taken to the...

The Impersonation Attempt Fails Without Errors in the Logs or UI

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Issue Admin users are unable to impersonate other users. When attempting to impersonate, a new tab opens, but it remains on the original user. Impersonation attempts fail, the `doAsUserId?` is missing from...

Is Liferay vulnerable to CVE-2023-50164?

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Issue After running a scan, we received an alert about a possible vulnerability in Liferay. We want to confirm if we are vulnerable to CVE-2023-50164. Environment All environments. Resolution Liferay is not...

Deprecation of Liferay Sync

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Issue I'd like to inquire about the support for Liferay 7.4 in the Liferay Sync. Currently, the Compatibility Matrix only lists support for Liferay DXP 7.3. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4+ Resolution Liferay Sync got...

Vulnerability on spring-web

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Issue The security scanner flagged the Liferay with the security vulnerability due to the JAR containing the vulnerable classes, reported here CVE-2016-1000027. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution It's been...

The users imported from LDAP cannot change their password

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Issue The users who were imported from LDAP cannot modify their passwords from My Account. Environment All Liferay DXP environments Resolution Make sure that LDAP Export option is enabled. Ensure that the credentials...

Redirecting to login page when authenticated via SAML returns a 500 error

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Issue Navigating to to the login page /c/portal/login on the SP throws a 500 error when already logged in through SAML. Environment DXP 7.3 DXP 7.4 Resolution This is a known issue affecting DXP 7.4 U80 and lower and...

GDPR-compliant 3rd party cookie handling in 7.3

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Issue Can you backport GDPR-compliant 3rd party cookie handling to 7.3 SP3? Environment The feature got implemented in DXP 7.4.13-u66. Backporting this feature to 7.3 is not feasible. Resolution There are 3 options...

A simple example and key factors to check when testing custom OAuth 2.0 applications

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Issue You have created an OAuth 2.0 application and would like to set up the minimum configuration to be able to test it. This article provides a simple example that could be adapted to your needs....

OpenID Connect Client Secret field must be filled

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Issue I configured an OpenID Connect Provider Connection. When I try to login using the OpenID Connect Client Name, I get an internal server error. In logs, a java exception is thrown: WARN [http...

Residual risk after limiting the usage of unsafe-eval and unsafe-inline

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Issue Can the derivatives unsafe-eval and unsafe-inline be exploited? If yes, how it is done? What is the residual risk associated with this? Can Content Security Policy (CSP) be resolved by adding a reverse...

Remove extend_session for Guest users

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Issue Guest users should not be able to see the extend_session message in the browser once the session has expired. Environment Liferay DXP [7.1-7.4, Quarterly Releases] Resolution Post observing the time...

Access revoked after task assignment to another user

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Issue Once the user assigns the task to another user, then the previous user loses access to that task and is unable to see that in the 'Assigned to my roles' tab of 'My workflow Tasks'. Steps to reproduce: 1....

CVE-2013-3587- enable of HTTP compression

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Issue Security vulnerability CVE-2013-3587 details a breach attack that is possible with the enable of HTTP compression and Deflate. Steps to see the behvaior: Navigate to any of the pages on the Liferay server....

How to Disable CAPTCHA on Server Admin Pages

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Issue How do you disable CAPTCHA on pages? Site Administration pages like the Gogo Shell now have a CAPTCHA verification. How do you disable CAPTCHA on pages? Adding “-1” (Never Check), doesn’t work....

Security Issue: CVE-2024-28752 - Apache CXF

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Issue Security vulnerability CVE-2024-28752 details a SSRF vulnerability with the Aegis DataBinding in versions of Apache CXF before 4.0.4, 3.6.3, and 3.5.8, which would allow an attacker to perform SSRF style attacks...

LDAP import PermissionChecker not initialized

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Issue When importing users by Groups and enabling ‘Creating Roles on Import’, the roles and groups will be created/imported, but the users are not imported. Error reads PermissionChecker not initialized...

User enumeration attack via response time

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Issue It is possible to determine if an email address is valid or not (i.e., user enumeration) by comparing the request's response time. This can be done by checking the browser's network tab and comparing...

How do we Toggle Requirement for Strangers to Verify their Email Address

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Issue How do we toggle the requirement for strangers to verify their email address Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution This setting can be toggled by going to: Instance Settings > User Authentication. From here, you can...

Checking for vulnerability to CVE-2022-42889

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Issue Is our Liferay instance vulnerable to CVE-2022-42889? Environment DXP 7.4, DXP 7.3, DXP 7.2, DXP 7.1, DXP 7.0 Resolution Look for commons-text in ${liferay.home}/license/versions.html, if you do not find it, you...

How to reduce difficulty on captcha for Liferay DXP 7.2

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Issue The captcha generated in the login is unreadable, even for humans. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Go to System Settings > Security Tools. Find and delete the following properties: ...

CVE-2023-33950

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Issue We would like to determine whether Liferay is vulnerable to CVE-2023-33950 The CVE claims that Pattern Redirects in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.48 through 7.4.3.76, and Liferay DXP 7.4 update 48 through 76 allow regular...

Security Issue Concerning Google Guava Versions 1.0 to 32

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Issue There is a present vulnerability with Google Guava that affects the versions from 1.0 to 31.1. Liferay is currently bundled with Guava. It has been reported that...

How to test for vulnerabilitity to CVE-2020-7961

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Issue We would like to determine if we are vulnerable to CVE-2020-7961. Environment DXP 7.3, DXP 7.2, DXP 7.1, DXP 7.0 Resolution The steps to test for vulnerability to CVE-2020-7961 are as follows: 1. Start your...

Relay state exceeds 80 bytes

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Issue After configuring SAML, I see Relay state exceeds 80 bytes WARN messages in the logs. How can I prevent the transmission of relay states larger than 80 bytes? Environment DXP 7.X Resolution This issue was...

CVE-2020-28885 and CVE-2020-28884

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Issue We would like to know about Liferay's vulnerability to CVE-2020-28885 and CVE-2020-28884. The CVE's claim that it is a vulnerability for an Administrator User to be able to inject commands through the Gogo Shell...

Is Liferay vulnerable to CVE-2023-40371 and CVE 2023-38408?

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Issue Is Liferay vulnerable to any of these vulnerabilities? Environment DXP 6.2+ Resolution No, Liferay is not vulnerable to any of these two. Neither CVE relates to any Liferay features, so they do not...

How to verify the current Implementation version of log4j.jar file

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Issue We would like to verify the implementation version of a log4j.jar file, either to verify the application of an update or to assess current vulnerability. Environment DXP 7.3, DXP 7.4 Resolution You can find the...

Does Liferay support more than one SAML connection?

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Issue Can Liferay connect to more than one Service or Identity Provider? Environment DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 DXP 7.3 DXP 7.4 Resolution Yes, Liferay does support more than one SAML or Identity Provider...

Does having a script in the Analytics section qualify as a potential XSS vulnerability?

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Issue We can put Javascript code in the Matomo (DXP 7.4) or Piwiki (DXP 7.0-7.3) field where the code can be executed on every other page Go to a Site's Configuration -> Site Settings -> Analytics Under the...

How can we set the requireSSL property?

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Issue How can we enable the requireSSL attribute in Liferay? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution You can set that in your JDBC properties:...

SSO SP connection doesn't send unauthenticated users to /c/portal/login

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Issue Once we setup a SAML SP connection, the SAML adapter doesn't recognize unauthenticated users and redirect them to /c/portal/login Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution This is intended behavior with the “Prompt Enabled”...

User is redirected to the 404 page instead of the login page when the session expires.

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Issue The user is not prompted for login but to a 404 page when navigating in pages with restricted access if the user session expires or, if the user is not logged in and tries to access directly the url. ...

What should be done when answers to the security questions are forgotten?

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Issue My users keep forgetting their answers to the security questions is there a way to disable this? Also is there an alternative to the forgot password option? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Liferay already sends a...

0Auth2.0 issues new token every time even before token's expiration time

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Issue The access_token expiration default is set to 10 minutes. When invoking the /oauth2/token before the previous token expires, a brand new token is issued instead of the original token. Environment DXP 7.4...

Does having a script in a fragment qualify as a potential XSS vulnerability?

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Issue We can put Javascript code in a fragment's HTML section where the code can be executed, when the fragment is opened, like <img src=x onerror="alert(document.cookie)"> Can that be a vulnerability to...

Does having a script in a button fragment qualify as a potential XSS vulnerability?

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Issue We can put a Javascript code in the Button fragment's URL field, so it can be executed when we click on the button, like javascript:alert(document.cookie) Can that be a vulnerability to Cross Site...

Unable to process SAML request

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Issue Some users are unable to login via SAML Steps to reproduce: Login User for the first time The user gets logged-in successfully Now, log out and try logging in again Result: Throws unable to process SAML...

After configuring a CDN, Liferay does not load images and throws error in browser console

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Issue We have configured a CDN with our Liferay environment. The portal is unable to load Liferay JS/CSS and images and we see errors in the browser console: Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https...(CDN)' from origin...

Liferay accepts only fully signed SAML responses. Can this requirement be turned off?

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Issue From a security standpoint, it's a best practice to sign the Response. However, we can switch off this requirement in our other apps. I can understand that Liferay by default requires the complete signature of...

Does CVE-2022-1471 affects DXP 7.4?

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Issue Our scanner reported that the Liferay DXP image as well as the Elasticsearch image are vulnerable to CVE-2022-1471, which is about an issue with SnakeYaml. Could you please confirm if we have to address this...

Unable to embed widgets even with "Allow users to add to any website" enabled

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Issue I cannot embed widgets on another site (with a different domain) even though I have the checkbox "Allow users to add <portlet> to any website" enabled. "<Hostname> refused connection" error may be seen. ...

Observing 'Your connection is not private' Warning on Help Center Downloads

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Issue When trying to download a quarterly release from Liferay's Help Center we are getting a browser error that says 'Your connection is not private... Attackers might be trying to steal your information...'...

Is Liferay Affected by CVE-2023-49070?

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Issue How can I mitigate vulnerability with CVE-2023-49070 regarding Liferay DXP? Environment All environments. Resolution Liferay does not use the Apache OFBiz, so Liferay is not impacted by this vulnerability....

LOGOUT event is not added to Audit Table

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Issue LOGOUT event is not being audited when SAML SLO is enabled. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution This happens because LogoutPreAction and LogoutPostAction classes do not get...

Critical Remote Code Execution Backdoor Vulnerability

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Issue A critical remote code Backdoor vulnerability was discovered on the open source XZ utils. This is CVE-2024-3094 with a maximum CVSS3 score of 10.0 Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The Docker images,...

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