CVE-2024-38002

State: Published
Severity: 9.0 Critical
Published: Oct 22, 2024
Updated: Oct 13, 2025
Reserved: Jun 11, 2024

Description

The workflow component in Liferay Portal 7.3.2 through 7.4.3.111, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0 through 2023.Q4.5, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.8, 7.4 GA through update 92 and 7.3 GA through update 36 does not properly check user permissions before updating a workflow definition, which allows remote authenticated users to modify workflow definitions and execute arbitrary code (RCE) via the headless API.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.0 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	Liferay

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
PortalLiferay	7.3.2 through 7.3.7Affected 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.111Affected
DXPLiferay	7.3.10 through 7.3.10-u36Affected 7.4.13 through 7.4.13-u92Affected 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.8Affected 2023.Q4.0 through 2023.Q4.5Affected

References

https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2024-38002

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