🛡️ CVE-2025-43764 — digital-experience-platform
Description
Liferay Portal ReDoS with Role Name search in KaleoDesignerPortlet
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.
How this vulnerability can be exploited
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level 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 none, availability high.
Weakness class
CVE-2025-43764 is classified as CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. A regular expression backtracks catastrophically on crafted input, consuming CPU out of proportion to input size.
Affected software
CVE-2025-43764 is recorded against 3 packages.
- com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.workflow.kaleo.designer.web (fixed in 5.0.145)
- digital-experience-platform
- liferay-portal (from 7.4.0 up to 7.4.3.132)
Timeline and source
Published on 23 August 2025 and last revised on 25 August 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.
References
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
liferay.atlassian.net (Web)
liferay.dev (Web)
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.workflow.kaleo.designer.web | — | 5.0.145 |
| digital-experience-platform | — | — |
| liferay-portal | 7.4.0 | 7.4.3.132 |
References
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