BIT-nifi-2020-13940

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Import Source

https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/nifi/BIT-nifi-2020-13940.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/BIT-nifi-2020-13940

Aliases

CVE-2020-13940
GHSA-q4xf-3pmq-3hw8

Published

2025-09-12T11:46:34.845Z

Modified

2025-09-15T07:41:52.738881Z

Summary

[none]

Details

In Apache NiFi 1.0.0 to 1.11.4, the notification service manager and various policy authorizer and user group provider objects allowed trusted administrators to inadvertently configure a potentially malicious XML file. The XML file has the ability to make external calls to services (via XXE).

Database specific

{
    "severity": "Medium",
    "cpes": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:apache:nifi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ]
}

References

https://nifi.apache.org/security#CVE-2020-13940
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13940

Affected packages

Bitnami / nifi

Package

Name: nifi
Purl: pkg:bitnami/nifi

Severity

5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

1.0.0

Last affected

1.11.4