CVE-2025-62275
📋 TL;DR
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to view images in blog entries without proper permission checks in Liferay Portal and DXP. Attackers can access restricted images via crafted URLs. Affected users include organizations running vulnerable Liferay versions with blogs containing permission-protected images.
💻 Affected Systems
- Liferay Portal
- Liferay DXP
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Sensitive images containing confidential information, personal data, or intellectual property could be exposed to unauthorized users, potentially leading to data breaches, privacy violations, or competitive harm.
Likely Case
Unauthorized users can view images that should be restricted to specific user groups, violating intended access controls and potentially exposing non-critical but sensitive visual content.
If Mitigated
With proper network segmentation and access controls, impact is limited to unauthorized viewing of images within already accessible systems, preventing lateral movement or data exfiltration.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires knowledge of image URLs but no authentication. Attackers need to craft or guess URLs to protected images.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Liferay Portal 7.4.3.112+, Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.11+, 2023.Q3.11+, 7.4 update 93+
Vendor Advisory: https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-62275
Restart Required: Yes
Instructions:
1. Download appropriate patch from Liferay customer portal. 2. Backup current installation. 3. Apply patch following Liferay's patching guide. 4. Restart Liferay server. 5. Verify fix by testing image access controls.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Web Server URL Filtering
allConfigure web server (Apache/Nginx) to block direct access to blog image URLs or require authentication for image paths.
# Example Nginx location block for blog images
location ~ ^/documents/.*/blogs/.*\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ {
auth_basic "Restricted";
auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
}
Disable Blog Image Uploads
allTemporarily disable image uploads in blog entries through Liferay configuration to prevent exposure of new images.
# Modify portal-ext.properties
blogs.image.allowed.file.extensions=
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement network-level access controls to restrict access to Liferay servers from untrusted networks
- Enable detailed logging for image access attempts and monitor for unauthorized access patterns
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
1. Create a blog entry with an image restricted to specific user roles. 2. Attempt to access the image URL directly without authentication or proper permissions. 3. If image loads, system is vulnerable.Check Version:
# Check Liferay version
cat $LIFERAY_HOME/tomcat-*/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/liferay-plugin-package.properties | grep "version"Verify Fix Applied:
1. Repeat the vulnerable test after patching. 2. Direct image access should now require proper authentication and return appropriate error for unauthorized users.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Multiple 200 OK responses to direct image URLs from unauthorized IPs
- Access to /documents/*/blogs/* image paths without preceding authentication logs
Network Indicators:
- Direct HTTP GET requests to blog image URLs without session cookies or authentication headers
SIEM Query:
source="liferay_access.log" AND (uri_path="/documents/*/blogs/*" AND status=200) AND NOT (user!="anonymous")