GHSA-43h9-p3j4-39hmHighCVSS 8.1

Liferay Portal defaults to a low work factor for the default password hashing algorithm

Published
February 20, 2024
Last Modified
March 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-25607 →

📋 Description

The default password hashing algorithm (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1) in Liferay Portal 7.2.0 through 7.4.3.15, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 16, 7.3 before update 4, 7.2 before fix pack 17, and older unsupported versions defaults to a low work factor, which allows attackers to quickly crack password hashes.

🎯 Affected products5

  • maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:>= 7.3.0, < 7.3.10.u4
  • maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:< 7.2.10.fp17
  • maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:>= 7.4.0, < 7.4.13.u16
  • maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom:< 7.4.3.14
  • maven/com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.kernel:< 38.0.0

🔗 References (3)