Liferay Portal/DXP Kaleo Designer Portlet Role Name Search redos

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Liferay Portal and DXP. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Kaleo Designer Portlet. The manipulation of the argument Role Name Search results in redos. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-43764. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Liferay Portal and DXP (affected version not known). Affected is some unknown functionality of the component Kaleo Designer Portlet. The manipulation of the argument Role Name Search with an unknown input leads to a redos vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-1333. The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Self-ReDoS (Regular expression Denial of Service) exists with Role Name search field of Kaleo Designer portlet JavaScript in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.131, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.1, 2024.Q3.0 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.1 through 2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.20 and 7.4 GA through update 92, which allows authenticated users with permissions to update Kaleo Workflows to enter a malicious Regex pattern causing their browser to hang for a very long time.

The advisory is shared for download at liferay.dev. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-43764 since 04/17/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1449.003.

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-2025-25629). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Redos
CWE: CWE-1333 / CWE-400 / CWE-404
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Timelineinfo

04/17/2025 CVE reserved
08/23/2025 +128 days Advisory disclosed
08/23/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
12/13/2025 +112 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: liferay.dev
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-43764 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-43764
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-321204
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Entryinfo

Created: 08/23/2025 10:14
Updated: 12/13/2025 01:09
Changes: 08/23/2025 10:14 (66), 08/23/2025 15:25 (1), 12/13/2025 01:09 (12)
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