Security advisory

{
  "id": "45602ac93ea2c4b59818746ca8521af4f55ecea2ec8f73c377b3fdde00a1fa72",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12632",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-12632",
    "summary": "A malicious host header in an incoming HTTP request could cause NiFi to load resources from an external server. The fix to sanitize host headers and compare to a controlled whitelist was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.5.0 release. Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-12632",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-12632",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-12632",
        "GHSA-w4x6-j349-9r57"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/nifi",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "e6508ba7d3da5bba54abd6233a7a8f9dd4c32151"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:nifi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.4.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "rel/nifi-1.4.0",
            "rel/nifi-1.2.0",
            "nifi-1.2.0-RC2",
            "docker/nifi-1.2.0",
            "rel/nifi-1.1.0",
            "nifi-1.1.0-RC2",
            "nifi-0.6.0-RC2",
            "nifi-0.6.0",
            "nifi-0.4.1-RC1",
            "nifi-0.4.1",
            "nifi-0.2.0-incubating-RC1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12632.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:02.147250432Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-12632"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-12632",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 439953,
  "published_at": "2018-01-23T22:29:00.277+00:00"
}