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SCA: security update for org.apache.nifi:nifi (GHSA-jrcc-7jf5-3pxg)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416558

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2017-5636)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jrcc-7jf5-3pxg

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 416558

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5636

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5636

BID: 96731

cwe: CWE-74