CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-13940

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-10-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-10-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-611

Description

In Apache NiFi 1.0.0 to 1.11.4, the notification service manager and various policy authorizer and user group provider objects allowed trusted administrators to inadvertently configure a potentially malicious XML file. The XML file has the ability to make external calls to services (via XXE).

Affected configurations

• apache nifi (>= 1.0.0 <= 1.11.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness

References