High Access control

CVE-2025-3586 — Incorrect Authorization in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

In Liferay Portal 7.4.3.27 through 7.4.3.42, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.20, 2023.Q4.0 through 2023.Q4.10, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.10, 7.4 update 27 through update 42 (Liferay PaaS, and Liferay Self-Hosted), the Objects module does not restrict the use of Groovy scripts in Object actions for Admin Users. This allows remote authenticated admin users with the Instance Administrator role to execute arbitrary Groovy scripts (i.e., remote code execution) through Object actions. In contrast, in Liferay DXP (Liferay SaaS), the use of Groovy in Object actions is not allowed due to the high security risks it poses. Starting from Liferay DXP 2024.Q2 and later, a new feature has been introduced in Instance Settings that allows administrators to configure whether Groovy scripts are allowed in their instances.

Published Sep 1, 2025 · Updated Oct 18, 2026 · Sources: NIST National Vulnerability Database, CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP · CNA: Liferay

Low

Who exploits it and how urgent it is

A 0–100 score combining confirmed exploitation, ransomware and APT use, public exploits, EPSS and severity.

No exploitation signal in the sources consulted so far.

How the score was calculated

EPSS 0.4% (30-day exploitation probability)+5
Technical severity (high)+6

The score orders the patch queue; it does not replace your asset context (internet exposure, criticality, compensating controls).

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the sources call it.

Exploitation

Not confirmed

Not in CISA KEV — an absence of record, not proof it is unexploited.

EPSS FIRST

0.42%

ahead of 35% of scored CVEs · Oct 19, 2026

Affects

Liferay

Digital Experience Platform and 2 more

CVSS base

7.2

High · 3 source(s)

CISA SSVC assessment CISA

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses (SSVC 2.0.3). A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

can an attacker script the kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Total

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Remediation

Fixes and mitigations documented by the sources — linked to the original advisory.

No fix documented by the sources we poll. That does not mean none exists: check the vendor advisory.

First 24 hours

Ordered from the record’s own fields — exposure first, because you cannot patch what you have not found. A rule-generated starting point.

Identify exposed assets running the affected vendor/product/version combinations (Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay DXP, Liferay Liferay Portal).
No fix documented in the sources: reduce exposure and monitor the vendor advisory.
Search available logs for exploit probes matching the vulnerability class (access control), errors and authentication anomalies.

Affected scope

Vendor, product and versions as the sources word them.

Vendor	Product	Versions	Status	Source
Liferay	Digital Experience Platform	version 7.4-update32version 7.4-update42version 7.4-update41version 7.4-update40version 7.4-update39version 7.4-update38version 7.4-update37version 7.4-update36 and 11 more version 7.4-update35version 7.4-update34version 7.4-update33version 7.4-update31version 7.4-update30version 7.4-update29version 7.4-update28version 7.4-update27≥ 2024.Q1.1 and ≤ 2024.Q1.20≥ 2023.q4.0 and ≤ 2023.q4.10≥ 2023.Q3.1 and ≤ 2023.Q3.10	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Liferay	DXP	≥ 2023.Q3.1 and ≤ 2023.Q3.10≥ 2024.Q1.1 and ≤ 2024.Q1.20≥ 2023.Q4.0 and ≤ 2023.Q4.10≥ 7.4.13-u27 and ≤ 7.4.13-u42	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
Liferay	Liferay Portal	≥ 7.4.3.27 and ≤ 7.4.3.42	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
Liferay	Liferay Portal	≥ 7.4.3.27 and < 7.4.3.43	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database

Attack characteristics

The CVSS vector, decoded. It describes the attack, not your exposure to it.

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

High

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and may disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

Score	Version	Severity	Expl.	Impact	Scored by
7.5	CVSS 4.0	High	—	—	security@liferay.com via NIST National Vulnerability Database
7.5	CVSS 4.0	High	—	—	Liferay via CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
7.2	CVSS 3.1	High	1.2	5.9	nvd@nist.gov via NIST National Vulnerability Database

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (score shown at the top: nvd@nist.gov)

Weakness MITRE

Weakness class according to MITRE’s CWE catalog.

CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization

Other CVEs with this weakness →

EPSS over time FIRST

Oct 18, 2026 → Oct 19, 2026 · 2 reading(s) · max 0.42%

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not tested rules.

Prioritize edge telemetry for the network-reachable component (proxy, WAF, IDS/IPS).
Audit administrative actions and access to resources outside each user’s normal pattern.

web/proxy/WAF logsnetwork IDS/IPSauthentication logsapplication logs

Timeline

What happened to this CVE, newest first.

2026
Affected products added · liferay/portal, liferay/dxp
Oct 18, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
SSVC assessment updated
Oct 18, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
Record published
Oct 18, 2026
CVSS changed · 7.2
Oct 18, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
Source status changed · → Analyzed
Oct 18, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
Record created in this database
Oct 18, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
2025
CVE published
Sep 1, 2025 · Liferay

Source activity

Repeated readings are counted rather than listed.

1× Official description updated · Oct 18, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026

References

1 on the record

liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/
Vendor Advisory, NIST National Vulnerability Database

Elsewhere on this site

Liferay
every CVE for this vendor

Access control
same class

CWE-863
other pages naming this weakness

Related CVEs (same products)

Medium CVE-2025-62275 Liferay Portal and DXP do not check permissions of images in a blog entry Nov 1, 2025
Medium CVE-2025-62276 Liferay Portal and DXP use an incorrect cache-control header Oct 31, 2025
Medium CVE-2025-62267 Liferay Portal and DXP affected by multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in web content template’s select structure page Oct 31, 2025
Medium CVE-2025-62264 Liferay Portal Vulnerable to Reflected XSS via the selectedLanguageId Parameter Oct 31, 2025
Medium CVE-2025-62265 Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Liferay Digital Experience Platform Oct 30, 2025
Medium CVE-2025-62266 Open Redirect in Liferay Digital Experience Platform Oct 30, 2025

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

No fixed version, patch or mitigation documented.
No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.

Answered from this record

Text assembled only from the fields above — no additional claims.

What should defenders know first?

CVE-2025-3586 is "Incorrect Authorization in Liferay Digital Experience Platform", rated High. It affects Digital Experience Platform (Liferay); versions are in the scope table. It is not in CISA KEV, which does not rule out exploitation. CVSS 7.2 describes technical severity. EPSS 0.42% estimates the probability of exploitation in 30 days; neither replaces your asset context. First verify whether exposed or business-critical assets run the affected versions, apply vendor fixes or mitigations, and preserve logs for review.

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