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CVE-2017-5636
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…
Critical9.8EPSS 3.6%
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Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.6% · top 11% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- Escalation of Privilege
- CWE-74 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-74 and its CVEs
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache NiFi
- affected 0.7.0
- affected 0.7.1
- affected 1.1.0
- affected 1.1.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.nifi:nifiGHSA-jrcc-7jf5-3pxg (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- 96731 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-5636 (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-jrcc-7jf5-3pxg (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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