High
Security advisory
When using an authentication mechanism other than PKI, when the user clicks Log Out in NiFi versions 1.0.0 to 1.9.2, NiFi invalidates the authentication token on the client side but not on the server side. This permits the user's client-side token to be used for up to 12 hours after logging out to make API requests to NiFi.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-12421
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
When using an authentication mechanism other than PKI, when the user clicks Log Out in NiFi versions 1.0.0 to 1.9.2, NiFi invalidates the authentication token on the client side but not on the server side. This permits the user's client-side token to be used for up to 12 hours after logging out to make API requests to NiFi.
osv:CVE-2019-12421
Complete source record
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"summary": "When using an authentication mechanism other than PKI, when the user clicks Log Out in NiFi versions 1.0.0 to 1.9.2, NiFi invalidates the authentication token on the client side but not on the server side. This permits the user's client-side token to be used for up to 12 hours after logging out to make API requests to NiFi.",
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"published_at": "2019-11-19T22:15:11.287+00:00"
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