Timing Attack Affecting com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl package, versions [5.0.7,5.0.127)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMLIFERAY-12615695
  • published11 Sept 2025
  • disclosed9 Sept 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Sep 2025

NewCVE-2025-43786  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl to version 5.0.127 or higher.

Overview

com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl is a Liferay Portal Vulcan Implementation

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack via the WorkflowException error messages. An attacker can infer the existence of ERC by measuring differences in response times.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1