Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-3594

High

Published: 16 June 2025

Published
16 June 2025
Modified
12 December 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 8.6 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0159 82.1th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-3594 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform. Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 17.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-3594 is a path traversal vulnerability in the Xuggler download and installation process within Liferay Portal 7.0.0 through 7.4.3.4, Liferay DXP 7.4 GA, 7.3 GA through update 34, and older unsupported versions. The flaw, tracked under CWE-22 with a CVSS 4.0 score of 8.6, is triggered through the _com_liferay_server_admin_web_portlet_ServerAdminPortlet_jarName parameter and permits manipulation of file paths during remote operations.

Remote attackers with no authentication required can exploit the issue to write files to arbitrary server locations and to retrieve and execute arbitrary files hosted on the designated download server, resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The official Liferay advisory published at https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-3594 provides details on the affected releases and recommended remediation steps. The associated EPSS score remains flat at 0.0159 with no material increase observed after disclosure.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Path traversal vulnerability with the downloading and installation of Xuggler in Liferay Portal 7.0.0 through 7.4.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.4 GA, 7.3 GA through update 34, and older unsupported versions allows remote attackers to (1) add files to arbitrary locations…

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on the server and (2) download and execute arbitrary files from the download server via the `_com_liferay_server_admin_web_portlet_ServerAdminPortlet_jarName` parameter.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

liferay
digital experience platform
7.3, 7.4 · 7.0 — 7.2
liferay
liferay portal
6.2 · 7.0.0 — 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.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References