CVE-2025-43816

published 2025-09-25

CVE-2025-43816: A memory leak in the headless API for StructuredContents in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.119, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q1.1…

Priority P3 42 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

A memory leak in the headless API for StructuredContents in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.119, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.5, 2023.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.10, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.10, 7.4 GA through update 92, and older unsupported versions allows an attacker to cause server unavailability (denial of service) via repeatedly calling the API endpoint.

Affected

11 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
liferay	digital_experience_platform	< 7.4	7.4
liferay	digital_experience_platform	—	—
liferay	digital_experience_platform	2023.Q3.1 – 2023.Q3.10	—
liferay	digital_experience_platform	2023.q4.0 – 2023.q4.10	—
liferay	digital_experience_platform	>= 2024.Q1.1 < 2024.Q1.6	2024.Q1.6
liferay	dxp	2023.Q3.1 – 2023.Q3.10	—
liferay	dxp	2023.Q4.0 – 2023.Q4.10	—
liferay	dxp	2024.Q1.1 – 2024.Q1.5	—
liferay	dxp	7.4.13 – 7.4.13-u92	—
liferay	liferay_portal	< 7.4.3.120	7.4.3.120
liferay	portal	7.4.0 – 7.4.3.119	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v4.0 6.9 MEDIUM CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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