FKIE_CVE-2018-17193

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-12-19 14:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:45
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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.
References
security@apache.orghttps://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2018-17193Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2018-17193Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
apache nifi *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T01:45:30.877",
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