CVE-2021-29038: Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Does Not Obfuscate Password Reminder Answers

February 21, 2024 (updated July 29, 2025)

In Liferay Impl before 5.18.4, Liferay Users Admin Web before 5.0.33, Liferay Login Web before 5.0.18, and Liferay Commerce Account Web before 3.0.7 from Liferay Portal (7.2.0 through 7.3.5), and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before fix pack 1, 7.2 before fix pack 17, and older unsupported versions does not obfuscate password reminder answers on the page, which allows attackers to use man-in-the-middle or shoulder surfing attacks to steal user’s password reminder answers.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-mwhf-6mjm-6w3h
github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/5e2da784aeefce64107abd0411590db2b55faf0b
liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2021-29038
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29038

Code Behaviors & Features

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