CVE-2018-17194

HIGH

Apache NiFi 1.0.0-1.7.1 - Denial of Service via DELETE Request Content-Length Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When a client request to a cluster node was replicated to other nodes in the cluster for verification, the Content-Length was forwarded. On a DELETE request, the body was ignored, but if the initial request had a Content-Length value other than 0, the receiving nodes would wait for the body and eventually timeout. Mitigation: The fix to check DELETE requests and overwrite non-zero Content-Length header values was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.8.0 release. Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2018-17194

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0131
EPSS Percentile 80.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
apache/nifi 1.0.0 - 1.7.1
org.apache.nifi/nifi-framework-cluster 1.0.0 - 1.8.0Maven
Published Dec 19, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026