CVE-2017-5636
N/A
Published: October 19, 2017 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:20 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNifi
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96731x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingMitigationVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-5636Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-74
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