Proxy Chain Injection Vulnerability in Apache NiFi Cluster Environment

CVE-2017-5636 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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