CVE-2020-13940

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-13940
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-01 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-10-05 23:43:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-611

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Nifi All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Apache NiFi Security Reports MISC nifi.apache.org Vendor Advisory
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 730398 Apache NiFi Information Disclosure By Extensible Markup Language (XML) External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability
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