Reflected XSS Vulnerability in Apache NiFi 1.x Releases

CVE-2018-17193 · MEDIUM Severity

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The message-page.jsp error page used the value of the HTTP request header X-ProxyContextPath without sanitization, resulting in a reflected XSS attack. Mitigation: The fix to correctly parse and sanitize the request attribute value was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.8.0 release. Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.

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