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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Will a curl vulnerability impact Liferay DXP?

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Adrienne Lao

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Issue

  • There have been security announcements that are deemed to be a high-risk vulnerability that is caused by curl 8.4.0.  

Environment

  • DXP 7.3

Resolution

  • Liferay DXP does not use the libcurl library. In conclusion, Liferay DXP is not vulnerable to this type of curl security vulnerability. 
  • Liferay DXP Docker Images do however contain the affected curl libraries, included as a part of Ubuntu. Liferay DXP or scripts within the image do not call curl with any of the affected options or environment variables.

Additional Information

  • You may read about if your version of Docker Images is affected here, CVE-2023-38545 curl: SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow. There have been newer released versions of Docker Images (d5.0.47 or newer) that have addressed this existing vulnerability.

 

 

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