The following issues may affect your Liferay-Elastic stack.

Vulnerability Information

CVE	Severity	Vulnerability Summary	Affected Product	Affected Versions	Solutions & Mitigations
CVE-2025-25014	CVSSv3.1: 9.1 (Critical)	Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution	Kibana	Versions 8.3.0 to 8.17.5, and 8.18.0, and 9.0.0	Upgrade to version 8.17.6, 8.18.1, or 9.0.1. Learn more.
CVE-2024-52979	CVSSv3.1: 6.5 (Medium)	Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability	Elasticsearch	Versions < 7.17.25 and Elasticsearch versions < 8.16.0	The issue is resolved in versions 7.17.25 and 8.16.0. Learn more.
CVE-2024-11390	CVSSv3: 5.4 (Medium	Kibana Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Can Lead to XSS	Kibana	Versions 7.17.6 up to and including 7.17.23 and 8.4.0 up to and including 8.11.4	The issue is resolved in Kibana 7.17.24 and 8.12.0 and higher. Learn more.
CVE-2025-25016	CVSSv3.1: 4.3 (Medium)	Kibana Unrestricted Upload of File	Kibana	Versions 7.17.0 to 7.17.18 and 8.0.0 to 8.12.3	The issue is resolved in version 7.17.19 or higher, and 8.13.0 or higher. Learn more.

 

Additional Information

General note on CVEs affecting Elasticsearch

The Elasticsearch 7 server runtime included in Liferay DXP Tomcat Bundles and Docker Images (aka. Sidecar Elasticsearch, located under [Liferay-Home]/elasticsearch-sidecar) is neither suitable nor supported for production. It is provided as a convenience for local development and testing only. Instead, configure Liferay to connect to Elasticsearch as a self-managed, standalone server or cluster of server nodes.

The Sidecar Elasticsearch (including all of its bundled plugins and libraries) cannot be patched or updated through Liferay hotfixes. Liferay does not possess additional vulnerability and exploitability information beyond that provided in public security alerts by Elastic. The Sidecar Elasticsearch version is updated periodically with newer Liferay DXP Quarterly Releases.

General note on CVEs affecting Kibana

Liferay DXP and the Liferay Enterprise Search Monitoring application which integrates Kibana's UI as a proxy into Liferay DXP, do not include the binaries of the Kibana application itself. It is not possible to patch or update Kibana through the installation of Liferay hotfixes or upgrading to newer quarterly releases. In addition, Liferay does not have further information about the vulnerabilities and their exploit-ability beyond what's shared in the public security alerts issued by the vendor (Elastic).

Search Engine Compatibility

Liferay recommends that customers upgrade their production Elastic Stack to the latest available and compatible version. Reference the information here for the detailed Elasticsearch compatibility including the compatible connector versions and required quarterly release/update versions and patch levels.

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