CVE-2020-1942
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.17%Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in Apache NiFi
Published: 1/6/2022Modified: 9/15/2025
Description
In Apache NiFi 0.0.1 to 1.11.0, the flow fingerprint factory generated flow fingerprints which included sensitive property descriptor values. In the event a node attempted to join a cluster and the cluster flow was not inheritable, the flow fingerprint of both the cluster and local flow was printed, potentially containing sensitive values in plaintext.
Affected packages (3)
- Bitnami/nifi>= 0.0.1, <= 1.11.0
- Maven/org.apache.nifi:nifi-framework-core>= 0.0.1, < 1.12.0-RC1
- Maven/org.apache.nifi:nifi-security-utils>= 0.0.1, < 1.12.0-RC1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1942
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/nifi/commit/95746d346cddbd6134c4b28fdc39d5813a626f97
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/nifi/commit/d7c29f46378379fb596e4d1e59d1a3c41063db5b
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/4028
- WEBhttps://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7079
- WEBhttps://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2020-1942