CVE-2025-62252
📋 TL;DR
This CVE describes an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability in Liferay Portal and DXP that allows authenticated users in one virtual instance to assign organizations to users in different virtual instances. This violates multi-tenancy isolation and could lead to privilege escalation or unauthorized data access. Affected users are authenticated users with organization assignment permissions across vulnerable Liferay versions.
💻 Affected Systems
- Liferay Portal
- Liferay DXP
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
An attacker could assign privileged organizations to their account across virtual instances, gaining unauthorized access to sensitive data and administrative functions in other tenants.
Likely Case
Authenticated users could manipulate organization assignments to access resources in virtual instances they shouldn't have access to, potentially viewing or modifying data across tenant boundaries.
If Mitigated
With proper access controls and instance isolation, impact is limited to minor configuration changes that can be audited and reversed.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires authenticated access and knowledge of target user IDs and organization IDs across virtual instances
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Liferay Portal 7.4.3.112+; Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.6+, 2023.Q3.11+, 7.4 update 93+
Vendor Advisory: https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-62252
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Download the appropriate fix pack from Liferay's customer portal. 2. Apply the fix pack following Liferay's deployment procedures. 3. Verify the patch is applied by checking version information.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Restrict Organization Assignment Permissions
allTemporarily limit which users can assign organizations to users across the system
Navigate to Control Panel > Users > Roles > Define Permissions for specific roles
Implement Instance Boundary Validation
allAdd custom validation to ensure organization assignments stay within the same virtual instance
Implement custom portlet filter or service wrapper to validate instance boundaries
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement strict access controls to limit which users can perform organization assignments
- Enable detailed audit logging for all organization assignment operations and monitor for cross-instance attempts
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check Liferay version via Control Panel > Configuration > Server Administration > System InformationCheck Version:
Check liferay.home/portal-ext.properties or Control Panel > Configuration > Server AdministrationVerify Fix Applied:
Verify version is patched (7.4.3.112+ for Portal, 2023.Q4.6+/2023.Q3.11+/update 93+ for DXP) and test that cross-instance organization assignments are blocked📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Audit log entries showing organization assignments between different virtual instance IDs
- User permission changes across instance boundaries
Network Indicators:
- HTTP POST requests to UsersAdminPortlet with _com_liferay_users_admin_web_portlet_UsersAdminPortlet_addUserIds parameter containing cross-instance references
SIEM Query:
source="liferay" AND (event_type="organization_assignment" OR uri_path="/group/control_panel/manage") AND (instance_id != target_instance_id)