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CVE-2023-33949:
Java vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2023-33949 affects Liferay Portal versions 7.0.0 through 7.3.0 and Liferay DXP versions 7.0 through 7.2. The vulnerability was disclosed on May 24, 2023, and is related to the default configuration of email verification in user account creation (Liferay Advisory).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-1188 (Insecure Default Initialization of Resource) and has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 HIGH from NVD and 5.3 MEDIUM from Liferay Inc. The vulnerability vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N, indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity and no privileges or user interaction required (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to create accounts using fake email addresses or email addresses which they don't control, due to the default configuration not requiring email verification (Liferay Advisory).
Mitigation and workarounds
The recommended mitigation is to set the portal property 'company.security.strangers.verify' to true. The vulnerability has been fixed in Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1 and Liferay Portal 7.3.1 (Liferay Advisory).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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