CVE-2025-43796: Liferay Portal: Missing Rate Limiting in GraphQL Endpoint Enables Resource Exhaustion Attack

CVE-2025-43796 · Severity: medium · CVSS 4 · Published 2025-09-12

Liferay Portal: Missing Rate Limiting in GraphQL Endpoint Enables Resource Exhaustion Attack

Technologies: com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl (Maven). Vendors: Maven.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2025-43796 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-43796 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2025-43796?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 4, published 12 September 2025.
Which products and versions are affected?
com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.api (Maven) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=8.0.2,fixed=40.2.0; com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl (Maven) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=5.0.7,fixed=5.0.105.
Is there a fix for CVE-2025-43796?
Yes. com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.api (Maven): upgrade to 40.2.0 or later; com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl (Maven): upgrade to 5.0.105 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected by CVE-2025-43796?
Check whether you run com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.api (Maven) or com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl (Maven) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.api (Maven): upgrade to 40.2.0 or later
    # set com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.api to 40.2.0 in your pom.xml or build.gradle
  • com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl (Maven): upgrade to 5.0.105 or later
    # set com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl to 5.0.105 in your pom.xml or build.gradle

Affected products

  • com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.api (Maven) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=8.0.2,fixed=40.2.0
  • com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.vulcan.impl (Maven) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=5.0.7,fixed=5.0.105

Identifiers

  • CVE-2025-43796
  • GHSA-f3hf-r62c-mfrj

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