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The Liferay is vulnerable to the CVE-2023-4863?

Issue How can I mitigate vulnerability with CVE-2023-4863 regarding Liferay DXP? Environment All environments. Resolution Liferay does not use the libwebp library, so are not vulnerable to CVE-2023-4863. ...

Is Liferay vulnerable to CVE-2023-33946

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Issue I would like to know if Liferay is vulnerable to CVE-2023-33946? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 U1-U48 Resolution Yes, the Liferay is vulnerable to this CVE, the resolution is update to Liferay 7.4 U49 (or...

Does Apache Log4j Vulnerability CVE-2021-44832 affect Liferay ?

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Issue The Liferay uses the log4j-core Library which was reported to have a vulnerability. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 until fix-pack 16 Liferay DXP 7.3 until SP3 Resolution Yes, the Liferay is...

Is it Liferay vulnerable to the Log4j Vulnerability CVE-2019-17571?

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Issue After search in the following folder:/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-extras.jar is notice that the log4 is available as part of product, so the Liferay is it vulnerable to this lib? Environment All...

Setting up Liferay as both IDP and SP (SAML)

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Issue This article outlines how to configure two Liferay DXP bundles for SAML authentication with one functioning as the Service Provider (SP) and the second as the Identity Provider (IdP). Environment DXP...

Updating React dependencies to later version

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Issue As part of the security audit, the old version of the React might be vulnerable to attacks. Is there a way to hide the React version that Liferay displays? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution At this...

High CPU utilisation while using script to login users continuously

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Issue Facing high CPU utilization while logging-in high number of users per minute continuously (24x7) using username-password authentication, mostly while fetching data using some scripts. Environment Liferay DXP...

How long does the content remain in the CDN cache?

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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 What is the policy for cleaning and updating content...

Security Issue Concerning Google Guava Versions 1.0 to 32

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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 to reduce difficulty on captcha for Liferay DXP 7.2

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Issue The captcha generated in the login is unreadable, even for humans. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Go to System Settings > Security Tools. Find and delete the following properties: ...

Relay state exceeds 80 bytes

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Issue After configuring SAML, I see Relay state exceeds 80 bytes WARN messages in the logs. How can I prevent the transmission of relay states larger than 80 bytes? Environment DXP 7.X Resolution This issue was...

CVE-2023-33950

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Issue We would like to determine whether Liferay is vulnerable to CVE-2023-33950 The CVE claims that Pattern Redirects in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.48 through 7.4.3.76, and Liferay DXP 7.4 update 48 through 76 allow regular...

How to verify the current Implementation version of log4j.jar file

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Issue We would like to verify the implementation version of a log4j.jar file, either to verify the application of an update or to assess current vulnerability. Environment DXP 7.3, DXP 7.4 Resolution You can find the...

Does Liferay support more than one SAML connection?

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Issue Can Liferay connect to more than one Service or Identity Provider? Environment DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 DXP 7.3 DXP 7.4 Resolution Yes, Liferay does support more than one SAML or Identity Provider...

How can we set the requireSSL property?

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Issue How can we enable the requireSSL attribute in Liferay? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution You can set that in your JDBC properties:...

Does having a script in the Analytics section qualify as a potential XSS vulnerability?

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Issue We can put Javascript code in the Matomo (DXP 7.4) or Piwiki (DXP 7.0-7.3) field where the code can be executed on every other page Go to a Site's Configuration -> Site Settings -> Analytics Under the...

SSO SP connection doesn't send unauthenticated users to /c/portal/login

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Issue Once we setup a SAML SP connection, the SAML adapter doesn't recognize unauthenticated users and redirect them to /c/portal/login Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution This is intended behavior with the “Prompt Enabled”...

User is redirected to the 404 page instead of the login page when the session expires.

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Issue The user is not prompted for login but to a 404 page when navigating in pages with restricted access if the user session expires or, if the user is not logged in and tries to access directly the url. ...

Unable to process SAML request

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Issue Some users are unable to login via SAML Steps to reproduce: Login User for the first time The user gets logged-in successfully Now, log out and try logging in again Result: Throws unable to process SAML...

Does CVE-2022-1471 affects DXP 7.4?

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Issue Our scanner reported that the Liferay DXP image as well as the Elasticsearch image are vulnerable to CVE-2022-1471, which is about an issue with SnakeYaml. Could you please confirm if we have to address this...

How to extract the okta authorization token for each user?

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Issue Once users log in to Liferay, the user should get redirected to Okta. After successful authentication, Okta is supposed to return an authorization token for that specific user. Concern: After successful Okta...

Unable to extend user session on Weblogic

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Issue When I call Liferay.Session.extend(); from Liferay 7.4 running on Weblogic, the user session terminates. Environment DXP 7.4 Weblogic Resolution This behavior is resolved by LPS-190923. Please open a help...

AuditEvent not saved after migrating from Portal 6.2 to DXP 7.4

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Issue After migrating to DXP 7.4. If we use the portal normally, there aren't new entries in Audit_AuditEvents table. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Go to System Settings -> Audit -> Persistent...

Is One Time Password's expiration configurable?

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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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...

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...

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...

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...

How to protect against the vulnerabilities related to SnakeYaml in version 1.27

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Issue How can I mitigate vulnerability CVE-2022-38749, CVE-2022-38750, CVE-2022-38751 and CVE-2022-38752 regarding Liferay DXP? Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 EE Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2...

Cannot set proper permissions for Panel Category Entries in a Custom Site

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Issue The custom site panel category entries' panel app permissions do not work as intended. We are unable to grant permissions to access the panel app through a "Site role" if the category key does not start...

Detected Vulnerabilities related to Struts

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Issue A security scan has picked up the following vulnerabilities related to struts-core: CVE-2012-1007, CVE-2014-0112 CVE-2014-0112: ParametersInterceptor in Apache Struts before 2.3.20 does not properly restrict...

Special characters which are used for XSS can be saved as an input without any warning

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Issue Characters as <, >, /, (, ), ", ' which can be used to make scripts, used in HTML and JavaScript are valid to use in the portal as inputs and values, and it can raise security questions The use of these...

How to change the number of digits in the CSRF token parameter "p_auth

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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...

The screen name cannot be an email address or a reserved word

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Issue When trying to log in with an Active Directory user, sign-in failed with the below error ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-9][BaseSamlStrutsAction:59] Screen name test@liferay.com for user 34945 must validate...

SAML IDP is unable to initiate SLO

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Issue SAML Identity Provider is unable to initiate Single Log Out Notes 1. Set the different virtual hosts as below as an example 127.0.0.1www.bbb.com (For IDP) 127.0.0.1www.sp.com (For SP) 2. Using thetest...

Records are not removed from samlspsession table if the user closes the browser instead of logging out

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Issue Records are not removed from `samlspsession` table if the user closes the browser instead of logging out. Steps to reproduce: 1. Setup two instances of Liferay to use SAML - one as IDP and one as SP....

Can both Liferay and LDAP Password policies be enabled at the same time?

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Issue Is there a way to make both of Liferay and LDAP policies work together, so that users logging via Liferay authentication will be handled by Liferay's password policies and users authenticating...

EU Login via OpenID Connect needs Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE)

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Issue I would like to integrate my portal with an EU Login mock server instance via OpenID Connect It does not work since the OpenID connect server needs Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) After configuration, when I am...

I would like to control email notifications to Liferay strangers.

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Issue How are strangers defined by Liferay? How can I control email notifications to strangers upon signup? Environment DXP 7.3+ Resolution The SAML property defining unknown users as strangers was introduced in DXP 7.3....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Signed SAML response

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Issue How can the signed response, which is required by ADFS to complete authentication at the Liferay end, be clarified? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution...

"Content security policy" header is not available in the application response

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Issue The "Content security policy" header is not available in the application response. How to add or enable the CSP? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution Liferay doesn't directly support the CSP as there are no...

Impact of Spring4Shell and Spring Cloud Security Advisory on other libraries related to Spring

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Issue There previously was a Security Advisory regarding a vulnerability for the Spring4Shell and Spring Cloud libraries. These vulnerabilities are detailed in this article here: Spring4Shell and Spring Cloud Security...

Version of spring-** jars after installing a hotfix

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Issue To address the Spring4Shell vulnerabilities, the patched version of spring-beans.jar should be in its manifest file after the hotfix installation, is spring-webmvc.jar included in this? Environment Liferay...

Guest users are able to access an endpoint if PortalSessionAuthVerifier is enabled

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Issue We have followed this How-To article: How to add security, authentication to my REST service? (Section 5.1), but guest users are still able to access our endpoint from a browser. If we enable...

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