Liferay Portal/DXP Xuggler path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Liferay Portal and DXP. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Xuggler. This manipulation of the argument _com_liferay_server_admin_web_portlet_ServerAdminPortlet_jarName causes path traversal. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-3594. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Liferay Portal and DXP (unknown version). It has been declared as very critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Xuggler. The manipulation of the argument _com_liferay_server_admin_web_portlet_ServerAdminPortlet_jarName with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Path traversal vulnerability with the downloading and installation of Xuggler in Liferay Portal 7.0.0 through 7.4.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.4 GA, 7.3 GA through update 34, and older unsupported versions allows remote attackers to (1) add files to arbitrary locations on the server and (2) download and execute arbitrary files from the download server via the `_com_liferay_server_admin_web_portlet_ServerAdminPortlet_jarName` parameter.

It is possible to read the advisory at liferay.dev. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-3594 since 04/14/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/12/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-18408). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Enterprise Resource Planning Software

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• Liferay

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• DXP
• Portal

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• open-source

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