[ANNOUNCE] CVE Announcement for Apache NiFi 1.0.0 - 1.5.0

[Andy LoPresto <alopresto () apache org>]

The Apache NiFi PMC would like to announce the following CVE discoveries in Apache NiFi 1.0.0 - 1.5.0. These issues 
were resolved with the release of NiFi 1.6.0 on April 8, 2018. NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to 
process and distribute data. It supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and 
system mediation logic. For more information, see https://nifi.apache.org/security.html 
<https://nifi.apache.org/security.html>.

CVE-2018-1309 <https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2018-1309>: Apache NiFi External XML Entity issue in SplitXML 
processor

Severity: Moderate

Versions Affected:

Apache NiFi 0.1.0 - 1.5.0
Description: Malicious XML content could cause information disclosure or remote code execution.

Mitigation: The fix to disable external general entity parsing and disallow doctype declarations was applied on the 
Apache NiFi 1.6.0 release. Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.

Credit: This issue was discovered by 圆珠笔.

CVE Link: Mitre Database: CVE-2018-1309 <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1309>

CVE-2018-1310 <https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2018-1310>: Apache NiFi JMS Deserialization issue because of 
ActiveMQ client vulnerability

Severity: Moderate

Versions Affected:

Apache NiFi 0.1.0 - 1.5.0
Description: Malicious JMS content could cause denial of service. See ActiveMQ CVE-2015-5254 announcement 
<http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2015-5254-announcement.txt> for more information.

Mitigation: The fix to upgrade the activemq-client library to 5.15.3 was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.6.0 release. 
Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.

Credit: This issue was discovered by 圆珠笔.

CVE Link: Mitre Database: CVE-2018-1310 <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1310>

CVE-2017-8028 <https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-8028>: Apache NiFi LDAP TLS issue because of Spring 
Security LDAP vulnerability

Severity: Severe

Versions Affected:

Apache NiFi 0.1.0 - 1.5.0
Description: Spring Security LDAP library was not enforcing credential authentication after TLS handshake negotiation. 
See NVD CVE-2017-8028 disclosure <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8028> for more information.

Mitigation: The fix to upgrade the spring-ldap library to 2.3.2.RELEASE+ was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.6.0 release. 
Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.

Credit: This issue was discovered by Matthew Elder.

CVE Link: Mitre Database: CVE-2017-8028 <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8028>

CVE-2018-1324 <https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2018-1324>: Apache NiFi Denial of service issue because of 
commons-compress vulnerability

Severity: Low

Versions Affected:

Apache NiFi 0.1.0 - 1.5.0
Description: A vulnerability in the commons-compress library could cause denial of service. See commons-compress 
CVE-2018-1324 announcement <https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html> for more 
information.

Mitigation: The fix to upgrade the commons-compress library to 1.16.1 was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.6.0 release. 
Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.

Credit: This issue was discovered by Joe Witt.

CVE Link: Mitre Database: CVE-2018-1324 <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1324>


Andy LoPresto
alopresto () apache org
alopresto.apache () gmail com
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