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CVE-2020-9491

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—

In Apache NiFi 1.2.0 to 1.11.4, the NiFi UI and API were protected by mandating TLS v1.2, as well as listening connections established by processors like ListenHTTP, HandleHttpRequest, etc. However intracluster communication such as cluster request replication, Site-to-Site, and load balanced queues continued to support TLS v1.0 or v1.1.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Apache — Nifi

CWEs

References

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