🛡️ CVE-2021-33322 — com.liferay.portal.impl

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-613 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP fails to invalidate password reset tokens after use

In implementation for the portal services before 5.7.3 in Liferay Portal 7.3.0 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 96, 7.1 before fix pack 18, and 7.2 before fix pack 5, password reset tokens are not invalidated after a user changes their password, which allows remote attackers to change the user’s password via the old password reset token.

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 none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-33322 is classified as CWE-613: Insufficient Session Expiration. Sessions stay valid longer than they should, so an old identifier still grants access.

Affected software

CVE-2021-33322 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl (fixed in 5.7.3)
  • com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom (from 7.2.0 up to 7.2.10.fp5)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 27 June 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
liferay.atlassian.net (Web)
liferay.dev (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-613
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-06-27
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl — 5.7.3
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom 7.2.0 7.2.10.fp5

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