Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-42131

Medium

Published: 15 November 2022

Published
15 November 2022
Modified
30 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.0th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-42131 is a medium-severity Improper Certificate Validation (CWE-295) vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 32.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Certain Liferay products are affected by: Missing SSL Certificate Validation in the Dynamic Data Mapping module's REST data providers. This affects Liferay Portal 7.1.0 through 7.4.2 and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 27, 7.2 before fix pack 17, and…

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7.3 before service pack 3.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

liferay
digital experience platform
7.1, 7.2, 7.3
liferay
liferay portal
7.1.0 — 7.4.3.4

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-295

When certificates are used to establish component provenance, the control requires correct certificate validation procedures.

addresses: CWE-295

Mandates approved trust anchors and issuance policies, directly preventing acceptance of unvalidated or untrusted certificates.

addresses: CWE-295

Correct system time is required for proper enforcement of certificate notBefore/notAfter dates and time-based revocation checks.

References