Vulnerability Report

CVE-2021-29041

Title: Liferay Dxp Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2021-29041.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 16, 2021

Modified Date Jul 09, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2021-29041: Denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the Multi-Factor Authentication module in Liferay DXP 7.3 before fix pack 1 allows remote authenticated attackers to prevent any user from authenticating by (1) enabling Time-based One-time password (TOTP) on behalf of the other user or (2) modifying the other user's TOTP shared secret.

Impacted Vendors

liferay 1

Reference Links

http://liferay.com https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17131 http://liferay.com https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17131

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2021-29041 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

July 09, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

July 05, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 16, 2021 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.