Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort Affecting com.liferay.portal:portal-impl package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMLIFERAYPORTAL-8496664
  • published12 Dec 2024
  • disclosed20 Feb 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Feb 2024

CVE-2024-25607  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-916  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

com.liferay.portal:portal-impl is a Portal Impl

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort due to the default configuration of the password hashing algorithm, which defaults to a low work factor. An attacker can quickly crack password hashes.

Workaround

Users can set passwords.encryption.algorithm=PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1/160/720000 in portal-ext.properties file.

CVSS Scores

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version 3.1