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CVE-2020-15841Liferay Portal before 7.3.0, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 89, 7.1 before fix pack 17, and 7.2 before fix pack 4, does not safely…
- 8.3HighCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Liferay Portal before 7.3.0, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 89, 7.1 before fix pack 17, and 7.2 before fix pack 4, does not safely test a connection to a LDAP server, which allows remote attackers to obtain the LDAP server's password via the Test LDAP Connection feature.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| mitreCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.3 | CVSS:3.1/AC:H/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:R |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavencom.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bomGHSA-773f-f929-qgjj (opens in a new tab)
- Mavencom.liferay.portal:release.portal.bomGHSA-773f-f929-qgjj (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/119317439 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-16928 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-7822 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-773f-f929-qgjj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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