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SCA: security update for org.apache.nifi:nifi-standard-processors (GHSA-42wx-65g4-5cxv)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409828

Description

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

 - Apache NiFi External XML Entity issue in SplitXML processor. Malicious XML content could cause information
 disclosure or remote code execution. The fix to disable external general entity parsing and disallow
 doctype declarations was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.6.0 release. Users running a prior 1.x release
 should upgrade to the appropriate release. (CVE-2018-1309)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-42wx-65g4-5cxv

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 409828

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 57.12

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-2018-1309

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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1309

BID: 104313

cwe: CWE-611