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Is One Time Password's expiration configurable?

Issue When does One Time Password expire? Can you set the validity timeframe of the OTP? Environment DXP 7.2+ Resolution OTP is HTTP session based, if the session expires, OTP expires as well. And it can only be used in the same HTTP session. Since OTP expiration is tied to the HTTP...

Security configuration related to session management

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Issue There are some security configuration requirement regarding session management. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Application uses the 'referrer' header as a supplemental check only, and not just for any authorization check. Liferay does not rely on the referrer header for any...

OpenID Connect Error - "Signed JWT rejected"

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Issue When configuring authentication using OpenID Connect, login fails and the following error is reported: Unable to validate tokens: Signed JWT rejected: Another algorithm expected, or no matching key(s) found This error arises when the RS265 is not listed as the first supported...

Browser Pop-Up For Non-Https Site

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Issue We are seeing a browser pop-up warning for our users when they try to login to our http site. They become concerned as it says the connection is not secure, but to 'send anyway'. Can this be disabled by Liferay or bypassed somehow? Environment DXP 7.0 | DXP 7.1 | DXP 7.2 | DXP 7.3...

Is Liferay's SAML Service Provider Logout URL required in the Identity Provider?

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Issue Azure's SAML Identity Provider (IdP) marks the Service Provider's (SP) Logout URL as "optional" However, when I remove Liferay's Logout URL from Azure's SAML configurations, Liferay users are not signed out completely from Liferay after signing out through Azure. Is it necessary to...

XSS and Web Content editing

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Issue Web Content Editing If a script is added to the content field and published, the script is executed when the article is displayed. Accessing the page triggers an alert each time. Allowing such content could assist the creator to perform an XSS attack. Environment DXP 7.0 ~ DXP 7.4...

Where is the password reset email set up and in what priority order?

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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 It seems that I can set up the password reset email in multiple places,...

I am redirected to the home guest page after login with SAML

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Issue After logging in with SAML, I am redirected to the Home Page of a non-logged-in user. I am redirected back to the Portal login screen after login with SAML Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.0+ Resolution This can be caused because auto-login is not allowed, which results in being...

Does Liferay DXP validate Session Identifiers?

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Issue Does Liferay DXP validate Session Identifiers? And yes, Liferay does validate Session Identifiers! Environment Liferay DXP Resolution As for the session configuration in the portal we have the...

Does CVE-2016-1000027 affect Liferay?

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Issue Security scan shows CVE-2016-1000027 as an active vulnerability, is Liferay affected? Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution CVE-2016-1000027 is known to us, and we can confirm that Liferay should not be vulnerable, as Liferay does not use the following components:...

Does CVE-2022-47966 affect Liferay?

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Issue Our security scan has shown CVE-2022-47966 as an active critical vulnerability. Is Liferay affected? Environment DXP 7.2 Resolution The out-of-the-box Liferay product is not affected by this vulnerability. So, unless you use this library in a custom implementation, your system can...

Insecure HTTP methods

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Issue HTTP methods like HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE may provide information about the application that can be used in attacks like XST, CSRF, steal of sensitive information. How we can disable insecure/unnecessary http methods? How to enable the SECURE attribute to disallow the cookie to be...

SQL injection Sleepy user agent attack

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Issue Liferay does not restrict a URL that has a 'sleepy user agent' query appended to it like: https://domain/page?1%2b(select*from(select(sleep(x)))a)%2b=1 Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Sleepy user agent payload gets a page in sleep mode(inactive) for x seconds of time, which...

SAML Download Certificate button is broken, with Redirect URL errors seen

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Issue The Download Certificate button doesn't work in the SAML Admin. When I click on the Download Certificate button, nothing happens. Redirect URL errors are seen in Liferay logs, such as: [http-nio-8080-exec-10][PortalImpl:991] Redirect URL...

SAML Admin - "Metadata XML is null" error

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Issue When attempting to create a new Identity Provider under SAML Admin, having entered the required information, when ‘Save’ is clicked the UI displays: "Error: Please enter a valid identity provider entity ID." The logs show: INFO [http-nio-8084-exec-19][SamlAdminPortlet:77] Metadata...

Disabling jQuery in Control Panel

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Issue I've found vulnerabilities in our current jQuery version. Since I can't find jQuery used anywhere, I would like to disable it. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Go to Control Panel --> System Settings --> Third Party --> jQuery Tick off the Enable jQuery checkbox Save,...

Blank screen is seen after password reset

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Issue A blank screen (with url http://localhost:8080/c) is seen after user password is reset. The expected behavior after password reset is for users to A) be successfully redirected to Liferay home page and B) remain logged in. However, in DXP 7.4 u50 (and below)...

Not Found page seen instead of Login Prompt when logged out and navigating to private pages

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Issue When not logged in, and user attempts to navigate to private page's URL, instead of being prompted to log in, a 'Not Found' page is seen instead. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution In DXP 7.3, when users are not logged in and they navigate to a private page's URL, they are prompted to...

Users see the message "Redirecting to your identity provider" before redirecting to OKTA login screen

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Issue The guest user observed the message "Redirecting to your identity provider" showed up before the OKTA user login screen showed up. The behavior just happened after upgrading the environment to 7.4 Update 56. We don't want the front-end users to see this message. Environment...

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 Proxy? Environment Liferay DXP [all versions] Resolution Unfortunately, the DXP...

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 frequencies in the snapshot, it is seen that every request has around the interval...

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. Create one regular role. 2. Create three users and assign that particular...

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. Inspect the browser, open the network tab request, and check the...

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 actions are disabled by default on purpose for guest users: <guest-unsupported>...

Resolving Control Panel access not being provided through user group role permissions

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Issue A user cannot see the Control Panel, even though they are in a user group which has the correct application permissions and resource permissions relating to Control Panel access. Environment 2024.Q1 Resolution This is resolved in 2024.Q2.0+ via the fix for LPD-25542 Additional...

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 /c/portal/update_password page, the theme is no longer visible. Environment Liferay DXP Resolution...

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? Environment All environments [DXP 7.0 - DXP 7.4] Resolution Polyfill is a common...

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 the URL. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 + Resolution Start the bundle and navigate...

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 vulnerable as it does not use the Struts upload feature. Additional Information...

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 deprecated in 7.3 without direct replacement. The feature is in archived...

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 some DXP 7.3 versions. Please upgrade to a more recent release or open...

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 ways to enable or disable the multi-factor authentication: Through the portal,...

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 used to connect from Liferay DXP to LDAP have sufficient permissions to...

User groups imported from LDAP remain in Liferay after the LDAP group is deleted

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Issue Removing a group from LDAP does not remove the related user group imported in Liferay DXP's database. Environment All Liferay DXP environments Resolution This is intended behavior. Liferay DXP does not delete a user group that still has active members. To remove a user group...

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 available: Upgrading to a version which contains the required feature...

'Authentication Search Filter' for Users in LDAP

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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 Filter' is applied? We are using as 'Authentication Search Filter' this...

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 Server keeps asking for the basic credentials, even after they've been...

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 Azure Key Vault to store the DB username and password and read it...

'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: GoDaddy <donotreply@godaddy.com> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2024 11:42 AM To: ABC...

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 Regarding the vulnerability in Apache tomcat regarding sending...

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 (JavaScript) to the equipment being accessed. For example, if you inject...

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 able to access a user's private pages is the expected behavior despite...

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: {PBKDF2WABCDMAEFGH1}ABCDoABC/ABCD644e/XY3ZAbcde8hI0jKLOnBcEE7U7TuuV The...

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 applicable in the Liferay context. Therefore, Liferay does not make this type...

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 or Simplified) sets ui_locales to zh. In this example, we would...

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 installed (with fix LPS-172619) and the...

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. Previously, CAPTCHA could be “disabled” by navigating to Control Panel → Configuration →...

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 on webservices that take at least one parameter of any type. Users of...

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 after scheduled LDAP import. I’m connected to my LDAP server, all tests are working,...

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, or DXP, are not vulnerable. Our Docker images use Ubuntu Jammy, and in the...

Unable to embed widgets even with "Allow users to add <portlet> 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. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Currently, the checkbox "Allow users to...

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...' Environment Quarterly Release 2024.Q1 Resolution This can often be caused by an...

Unable to process the OpenID Connect login: Resource URI must be absolute and with no query or fragment

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Issue Unable to login with OpenID from the Sign-In portlet: ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-2][OpenIdConnectLoginRequestMVCActionCommand:190] Unable to process the OpenID Connect login: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Resource URI must be absolute and with no query or fragment:...

Cipher Keys used in DXP 7.1 and 7.3

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Issue Our security team would like to know whether Liferay DXP 7.1 and DXP 7.3 uses any of the following cipher keys? DES, 3DES, IDEA or RC2 Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution The algorithms listed above are not being used in Liferay DXP 7.1 and 7.3 by default. You...

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. Additional Information CVE-2023-49070, content:...

Database Permissions Required for Liferay

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Issue Could you please provide us with a list of Database Permissions required for Liferay to function? (We are optimizing our application security concerning the Database) Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Liferay requires reading...

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 the User's userId due to unauthenticated session issue. This is a known...

Unable to process OpenID Connect authentication response: Requested value and approved state do not match

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Issue From time to time, error messages like the following appear in logs: 2024-02-14 13:31:55.099 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-120][OpenIdConnectFilter:132] Unable to process OpenID Connect authentication response: Requested value "yIH9jiIpdpuACAYf7NdNERUksBJZvNOoi-knjn7BOo0" and approved...

Troubleshooting Unexpected Open Ports in Liferay PaaS

Issue When performing a network scan on a Liferay PaaS environment, ports 80, 443, and others appear to be in open state. Will this allow HTTP requests to be successful? Environment Liferay PaaS Resolution This behavior is expected and does not represent a security threat. Liferay PaaS...

Obfuscating property values and rendering them as asterisks(*****) in the Control Panel.

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Issue Certain property values need to be hidden in the Control Panel. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution To obfuscate the value of a portal property and have it appear as a string of asterisks (****) in the Control Panel, you have to include the name of that portal property in the...

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