CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5636
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-74
Description
In Apache NiFi before 0.7.2 and 1.x before 1.1.2 in a cluster environment, the proxy chain serialization/deserialization is vulnerable to an injection attack where a carefully crafted username could impersonate another user and gain their permissions on a replicated request to another node.
Affected configurations
• apache nifi 0.7.0
• apache nifi 0.7.1
• apache nifi 1.1.0
• apache nifi 1.1.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96731 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-5636 Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96731 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-5636 Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory