CVE-2021-44145: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

December 17, 2021 (updated December 29, 2021)

In the TransformXML processor of Apache NiFi an authenticated user could configure an XSLT file which, if it included malicious external entity calls, may reveal sensitive information.

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/17/1
nifi.apache.org/security.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44145

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