🛡️ CVE-2021-29040 — release.dxp.bom

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-209 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Reveals Data via Overly Verbose Error Messages

The JSON web services in Liferay Portal 7.3.4 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 97, 7.1 before fix pack 20 and 7.2 before fix pack 10 may provide overly verbose error messages, which allows remote attackers to use the contents of error messages to help launch another, more focused attacks via crafted inputs.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-29040 is classified as CWE-209: Information Exposure Through an Error Message. Error output includes internal detail such as paths, queries or stack traces that assists an attacker.

Affected software

CVE-2021-29040 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom (from 7.2.0 up to 7.2.10.fp10)
  • com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (fixed in 7.3.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 28 May 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
portal.liferay.dev (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
liferay.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-209
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-05-28
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom 7.2.0 7.2.10.fp10
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom — 7.3.5

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