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CVE-2017-12632
A malicious host header in an incoming HTTP request could cause NiFi to load resources from an external server. The fix to sanitize host…
High7.5EPSS 2.8%
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- apache
Description
A malicious host header in an incoming HTTP request could cause NiFi to load resources from an external server. The fix to sanitize host headers and compare to a controlled whitelist was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.5.0 release. Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Remote Code Execution
- CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache NiFi
- affected 1.0.0 - 1.4.0
- affected 0.1.0 - 0.7.x
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.nifi:nifiGHSA-w4x6-j349-9r57 (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-12632 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w4x6-j349-9r57 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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