🛡️ CVE-2025-62254 — digital-experience-platform

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Liferay Portal ComboServlet denial of service via large file combination

The ComboServlet in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.111, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0 through 2023.Q4.2, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.5, 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 35, and older unsupported versions does not limit the number or size of the files it will combine, which allows remote attackers to create very large responses that lead to a denial of service attack via the URL query string.

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 none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-62254 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2025-62254 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl (fixed in 97.0.0)
  • digital-experience-platform
  • liferay-portal (from 7.4.0 up to 7.4.3.111)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 October 2025 and last revised on 15 November 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)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
liferay.atlassian.net (Web)
liferay.dev (Web)

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-10-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-11-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl 97.0.0
digital-experience-platform
liferay-portal 7.4.0 7.4.3.111

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