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CVE-2017-12632

A malicious host header in an incoming HTTP request could cause NiFi to load resources from an external server. The fix to sanitize host headers and compare to a controlled whitelist was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.5.0 release. Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.

Published: Jan 23, 2018
Updated: May 9, 2024
CVE: CVE-2017-12632
GHSA: GHSA-w4x6-j349-9r57
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-20

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
apache / nifi	-	1.4.0.x
org.apache.nifi / nifi	1.0.0	1.5.0

https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-12632

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