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Liferay Portal Allows RCE via Deserialization of a JSON Payload

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 8, 2025

Package

maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (Maven)

Affected versions

< 7.1.1

Patched versions

7.1.1

Description

Liferay Portal CE 7.1.0 and earlier allows remote command execution because of deserialization of a JSON payload.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 4, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Aug 8, 2025
Last updated Aug 8, 2025

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(99th percentile)

Weaknesses

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2019-16891

GHSA ID

GHSA-372h-p48h-xw8q

Source code

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