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CVE-2018-17193

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-12-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache NiFi: from 1.0.0 through 1.7.1

References

• https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2018-17193
• https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2018-17193

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