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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-09-12 11:46

Modified

2025-09-12 12:08

Summary

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity References in Multiple Components

Details

Multiple components in Apache NiFi 0.0.1 to 1.16.0 do not restrict XML External Entity references in the default configuration. The Standard Content Viewer service attempts to resolve XML External Entity references when viewing formatted XML files. The following Processors attempt to resolve XML External Entity references when configured with default property values: - EvaluateXPath - EvaluateXQuery - ValidateXml Apache NiFi flow configurations that include these Processors are vulnerable to malicious XML documents that contain Document Type Declarations with XML External Entity references. The resolution disables Document Type Declarations in the default configuration for these Processors, and disallows XML External Entity resolution in standard services.

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  "id": "BIT-nifi-2022-29265",
  "modified": "2025-09-12T12:08:23.743Z",
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  "summary": "Improper Restriction of XML External Entity References in Multiple Components"
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CVE-2022-29265 (GCVE-0-2022-29265)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-30 08:05 – Updated: 2024-08-03 06:17

Title

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity References in Multiple Components

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Assigner

apache

References

URL

Tags

	https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2022-29265	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lists.apache.org/thread/47od9kr9n4cyv0mv8…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Apache Software Foundation	Apache NiFi	Affected: 0.0.1 to 1.16.0 , ≤ 0.0.1 to 1.16.0 (custom)

Credits

David Handermann at exceptionfactory.com reported this issue.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2022-29265 (GCVE-0-2022-29265)

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