CVE-2020-9491
HIGH7.5EPSS 1.3%Inadequate Encryption Strength in Apache NiFi
Published: 1/6/2022Modified: 9/15/2025
Description
In Apache NiFi 1.2.0 to 1.11.4, the NiFi UI and API were protected by mandating TLS v1.2, as well as listening connections established by processors like ListenHTTP, HandleHttpRequest, etc. However intracluster communication such as cluster request replication, Site-to-Site, and load balanced queues continued to support TLS v1.0 or v1.1.
Affected packages (2)
- Bitnami/nifi>= 1.0.0, <= 1.11.4
- Maven/org.apache.nifi:nifi>= 1.2.0, < 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 (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9491
- PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/nifi
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/nifi/commit/441781cec50f77d9f1e65093f55bbd614b8c5ec6
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2d9c21f9ec35d66f2bb42f8abe876dabd786166b6284e9a33582c718@%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2d9c21f9ec35d66f2bb42f8abe876dabd786166b6284e9a33582c718%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re48582efe2ac973f8cff55c8b346825cb491c71935e15ab2d61ef3bf@%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re48582efe2ac973f8cff55c8b346825cb491c71935e15ab2d61ef3bf%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://nifi.apache.org/security#CVE-2020-9491