CVE-2022-42123 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A Zip slip vulnerability in the Elasticsearch Connector in Liferay Portal 7.3.3 through 7.4.3.18, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 19 allows attackers to create or overwrite existing files on the filesystem via the installation of a malicious Elasticsearch Sidecar plugin.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00218.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Liferay	Digital Experience Platform Liferay Portal

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:7.3:-::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:7.4:-::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:liferay:liferay_portal::::::::

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-7363	A Zip slip vulnerability in the Elasticsearch Connector in Liferay Portal 7.3.3 through 7.4.3.18, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 19 allows attackers to create or overwrite existing files on the filesystem via the installation of a malicious Elasticsearch Sidecar plugin.
Github GHSA	GHSA-hffx-r282-w2g9	Path Traversal in Liferay Portal

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://liferay.com
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17518
https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-42123

History

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-11-15T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-09-05T17:25:07.238Z

Reserved: 2022-10-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-42123

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:03:45.528Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-15T01:15:13.053

Modified: 2025-09-05T18:15:36.977

Link: CVE-2022-42123

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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