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CVE-2021-33335

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-33335 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Liferay Portal versions 7.0.3 to 7.3.4 and Liferay DXP 7.1 and 7.2. An authenticated user with permissions to edit other users can compromise a company administrator account. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring high privileges but no user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:7.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:7.1:fix_pack_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:7.1:fix_pack_10:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:7.1:fix_pack_11:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:7.1:fix_pack_12:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.2HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0130 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 5,537 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bomFixed in: 7.3.5
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bomFixed in: 7.1.10.fp20
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bomFixed in: 7.2.10.fp9

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35mhigh

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Has Company Administrator Accounts Vulnerable to Takeovers

May 24, 2022

References

issues.liferay.com / browse/LPE-17103
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
portal.liferay.dev / learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/120747906
Release NotesVendor Advisory