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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Liferay Portal Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password Vulnerability (CVE-2021-33321)

Description

Insecure default configuration in Liferay Portal 6.2.3 through 7.3.2, and Liferay DXP before 7.3, allows remote attackers to enumerate user email address via the forgot password functionality. The portal.property login.secure.forgot.password should be defaulted to true.

Remediation

References

CVE-2021-33321

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-33321 CWE-640 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Tags

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