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How to allow unauthenticated (guest user) requests for GraphQL

Issue I implemented ReactJS Widget that relies on GraphQL requests for custom object values, with a widget exposing object entries to the public. However, unauthenticated GrapQL requests are disabled by default and...

Tomcat's vulnerability CVE-2023-44487

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Issue Is DXP 7.4 affected by Tomcat's Rapid Reset CVE-2023-44487? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution If user is not using Tomcat with DXP, then it is not affected by “Tomcat's Rapid Reset CVE-2023-44487”. If...

Vulnerabilities reported in classes generated by Liferay Service Builder

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Issue While performing security scans, there are vulnerabilities found in custom classes that are generated by Liferay Service Builder. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Sometimes, these warnings are...

Is there a release date for implementing the Content Security Policy (CSP) at Liferay?

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Issue If CSP is in beta mode, how is Liferay protecting its system from vulnerability? Is there a timescale for when the CSP will be fully deployed in the portal? Once the CSP has been successfully implemented,...

How to change the generated OTP from alphanumeric to numeric in multi-factor authentication?

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NOTE: The following resolution requires customization and should only be implemented at the discretion of your team. Liferay Support will not be able to assist with designing or implementing customizations. Issue...

Vulnerability CVE-2024-52046 in Liferay DXP

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Issue Is Liferay vulnerable to the vulnerability described in CVE-2024-52046? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 and above Resolution Liferay uses the affected Apache Mina library (`mina-core`) only in LDAP-related code. If...

Is Liferay Vulnerable to CVE-2023-45960?

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Issue I would like to know if Liferay is vulnerable to CVE-2023-45960? Is Liferay affected by CVE-2023-45960? Environment Quarterly Release 2024.Q1.7 Resolution The NIST listing for CVE-2023-45960 has been withdrawn and...

Enabling real-time antivirus scanning without asynchronous background scans

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Issue We would like to enable real-time antivirus scanning for uploaded files but disable asynchronous background scanning of the document library. The issue arises because: Enabling...

Embedding videos using basic web content

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Issue When we try to embed a video using <iframe> tags, during the creation the video displays, however after publishing the content and editing it again, the video is not displayed anymore and the source is updated...

Liferay Throws java.lang.ClassCastException: class org.apache.xerces.parsers on Login

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Issue Liferay throws a ClassCastException after upgrading, the upgrade logs show no errors. Liferay throws an error after non-graceful shutdown ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-8][AutoLoginFilter:247] Current URL...

Is Liferay DXP affected by CVE-2024-38286?

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Issue Is Liferay DXP affected by CVE-2024-38286? CVE-2024-38286 is an Apache Tomcat vulnerability wherein Apache Tomcat, under certain configurations on any platform, allows an attacker to cause an OutOfMemoryError by...

[T003] Open redirect in /c/document_library/find_folder with DNS rebinding vulnerability

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Issue Medium threat found during the performance testing: [T003] Open redirect in /c/document_library/find_folder with DNS rebinding Environment Liferay Quarterly release Resolution The reported concern has been...

Enabling SSO for our Liferay Console prevents logging in with email and password

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Issue After enabling SSO for our Liferay Console, we are no longer able to log in with email and password. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution This is expected behavior, as per the Official documentation for SSO: "The first...

HTTP Strict-Transport-Security Header in Liferay

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Issue Is HTTP Strict-Transport-Security Header enabled in Liferay? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Liferay enables HTTP security headers such as 'http.header.secure.x.content.type.options',...

Unable to Cancel Shutdown Event

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Issue After scheduling a shutdown event, and trying to cancel it, you see an error: "Error:Text verification failed." When trying to cancel a shutdown event, I'm prompted to input a CAPTCHA, but there is...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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. ...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

Vulnerable JavaScript dependency Bootstrap-select 1.12.4

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Issue The version of bootstrap-select 1.12.4 is vulnerable to attacks. To overcome this, bootstrap-select should be upgraded to a non-vulnerable version. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Liferay does not...

Email are not sent from Liferay when Office365 is used as the server

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Issue Emails are not sent out from Liferay In the log, we see the following error: liferay[liferay-7] [dxp] ERROR [liferay/mail-6][MailEngine:74] Unable to send message: 535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, the...

"Text verification failed" Captcha error

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Issue We are trying to use the Reset Password functionality, but every time we enter the captcha text correctly, we always get an error saying: "Text verification failed". We noticed this same behavior on other...

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