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Security Issue Concerning Google Guava Versions 1.0 to 32

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...

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 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...

How to set up a Mail Server with DXP to receive email notifications?

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Issue This article outlines how to set up a Mail Server and SMTP in Liferay DXP to receive emails. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Liferay DXP uses a mail server and SMTP to get email notifications. Liferay...

NTLM and NTLMv2 in Liferay Portal 6.2

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Issue The question is whether Liferay Portal 6.2 supports NTLM and NTLMv2 Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Resolution The library used in Liferay Portal 6.2 supports both NTLM and NTLMv2 There is a property that can...

Session Management in Liferay

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Issue How the sessions are managed in Liferay and what are all the different types to configure the same. Also, whether the Liferay session work for the javascript disabled browsers? Environment Liferay DXP...

How can we get a complete picture of a user's activity history?

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Issue Is there a way to find out how and by whom a user was created? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution The steps below can be used to track user activity. Log in by 'Test' user (Admin User) Create a new user...

Forgot Password is not popped up with an error when providing an email address that doesn't exist in the DB

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Issue In the 'Forgot Password' option, while trying to provide an email id that doesn't exist in the database, the user can proceed to answer the security question. Whereas an error is not popped up saying the user's...

Is functionality impacted when upgrading to Bootstrap 5 in portal 6.2 ? Is it supported ?

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Issue Requirement is to upgrade the Bootstrap library. Is functionality impacted when upgrading to Bootstrap 5 in portal 6.2 ? Is Liferay portal 6.2 compatible with Bootstrap 5? Is it supported ? Environment...

Is there a way to allow upper cases in a screen name?

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Issue Is there any way to ensure that a user's screen name maintains the same capitalization that is present in the AD (Active Directory) when the user is imported into Liferay? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2...

Any user who has not securely logged out will have their session terminated?

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Issue Terminating the session of any user who has not properly logged out, for example, who has unexpectedly closed the transaction window, etc. This user does not have to wait for the default time-out to be...

Password verification needed at time of changing user screen name & email address

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Issue Password verification is required whenever a user needs to update its screen name or email address Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution A feature request has been already created in order to add a toggle for...

When Setting Okta up as an SSO for Liferay PaaS, how can I generate IdP metadata in Okta without first having SP metadata?

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue The documentation for setting up an SSO with Liferay PaaS...

Does the Encryption Key that is generated per company id for the Liferay Installation ever change?

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Issue Does the Encryption Key that is generated per company id for the Liferay Installation ever change? Environment Liferay 7.2 Resolution The following portal properties will alter the encryption key for a Liferay...

How to create Custom attribute in MS Active Directory and configure in Liferay

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Issue Is there any way to map a custom attribute in Liferay created from MS Active Directory? Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Resolution Liferay provides an OOTB option to achieve the custom attribute...

Externalize Session Management

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Issue The session details should be stored in a centralized server so that it is shared with all the available nodes. Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Resolution This is a specific business requirement that falls beyond...

Disable Admin password reset email notifications

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Issue The user should not receive the email notification for the password change. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution The requirement is not available out of the box in Liferay. If you want to achieve this...

SSO at site level

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Issue Is there any OOTB option to configure SAML for two sites on the same instance? Whether creating a new instance for a site would help to configure SAML? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3...

Use Custom certificate and Let's encrypt at same time in different domains

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue We need to have some domains with custom certificates and...

Failed to verify signature and/or establish trust using any KeyInfo-derived credentials

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Issue SAML has abruptly stopped working, and no user can log in. The Liferay console contains the following errors: DEBUG [ajp-nio-172.1.129.26-8080-exec-351][BaseSignatureTrustEngine:200] Attempting to establish...

Users who are not registered with Liferay application are able to log in

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Issue Users who are not registered with the Liferay application are able to log in even though they have no connections. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 to 7.4 Resolution Users log into Liferay DXP by using...

Lodash Security Vulnerability

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Issue In Liferay, a vulnerable version of Lodash 4.17.14 is being used. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution The observed behavior is a known issue LPE-17236 and has already been fixed in the latest fix...

Enabling information about server errors in the JSON response

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Issue There is no error messages from api json services. How to manage the serialization and access to Json services In Liferay Portal 6.2 or DXP7.0 the server response is serialized and shows information related...

Does CVE-2022-34305 affect Liferay?

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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...

Portal prints error stacktrace on the browser, disclosing technical information

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue When navigating some incorrectly crafted URLs...

Error message is not displayed when an error occurs in JSONWS

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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...

Unable to send message: 554 X.X.XXX SendAsDenied

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Issue When sending emails, the error "unable to send message: 554 X.X.XXX SendAsDenied" occurs. Steps to reproduce: 1. Configure the outlook mail server to send email notifications in Liferay 2. Sometimes, the...

JSESSIONID not secure by default

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Issue The JSESSIONID cookie that comes with Liferay requests in the browser is not secure by default when inspected in the browser. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Set the JSESSIONID in web.xml...

Could not connect to the SMTP host exceptions

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Issue When sending emails, the error "unable to send message: Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.office365.com, port: 587" occurs. Steps to reproduce: 1. Configure the outlook mail server to send email...

Is Liferay creating cookies site base?

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Issue Is Liferay creating a cookies site base? If so, where exactly on the Liferay server would all the cookies be physically kept? Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4...

How to get rid of SSLHandshakeException?

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Issue When trying to access the site URL, the console displays the following exception, and the site is inaccessible. javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshakefailure...

Need to hide Liferay Auth token as it is visible in Page source

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Issue When using the burp suite tool to intercept traffic, the Liferay Auth token is visible in the Page Source, which could make the environment vulnerable in the user's view. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution...

When logging in with an OpenID Provider, the portal shows "Internal Server Error"

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Issue When configuring an OpenID Provider and trying to log in with an user, the callback to the portal shows an error message similar to the one below: Internal Server Error An error occurred while...

Can Liferay be affected by the IceApple framework?

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue CrowdStrike’s Falcon Overwatch has discovered a...

How to Update Webserver Credentials

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue I would like to change my webserver login credentials....

OAuth 2.0 with Kerberos

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Issue You might encounter an issue where after the SSO setup, you start having problems with OAuth 2.0 and the call to /o/oauth2/token is failing with a "401 Unauthorized error". Also if you use Apache you might...

How to protect the portal against Bootstrap: CVE-2019-8331 vulnerability

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Issue Liferay 7.0 uses a Bootstrap versión that has this vulnerability: CVE-2019-8331 - XSS is possible in the tooltip or popover data-template attribute. Bootstrap issue 20184 - XSS in data-target attribute....

How to resolve users being unable to log out after configuring a Token-Based SSO

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Issue After configuring and enabling a Token Based SSO in our 7.2 environment (upgraded from 7.0), users are now unable to log out, and they are instead redirected to the home page (still logged in). In our 7.0...

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