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CVE-2025-62260: Liferay Portal · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affects Liferay PortalSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.1 High.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 13:47 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
7.1High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 32% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 27 Oct 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Mavencom.liferay.portal/portalpkg:maven/com.liferay.portal/portalOther threatsAffected
  • =7.4.0
Fixed in–

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AI-suggested

  1. Implement strict rate limiting and throttling on Headless API endpoints to restrict the number of requests and the volume of data returned per request.
  2. Enforce pagination and maximum response size limits in API responses to prevent large data dumps.
  3. Monitor API usage patterns and set alerts for abnormal spikes in request volume or response sizes.
  4. Apply network-level protections such as Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) configured to detect and block suspicious API request patterns.
  5. Restrict access to Headless APIs to trusted IP ranges or authenticated users where possible, even though the vulnerability does not require authentication.
  6. Upgrade to the latest Liferay Portal or DXP versions once official patches addressing this vulnerability are released.
  7. Conduct regular security assessments and penetration testing focused on API endpoints to identify similar resource consumption issues.
  8. Educate development and operations teams about secure API design principles, including resource limiting and input validation.

Description

Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.99, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4, 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 35, and older unsupported versions does not limit the number of objects returned from Headless API requests, which allows remote attackers to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on the application by executing a request that returns a large number of objects.

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