Medium
Security advisory
The message-page.jsp error page used the value of the HTTP request header X-ProxyContextPath without sanitization, resulting in a reflected XSS attack. Mitigation: The fix to correctly parse and sanitize the request attribute value was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.8.0 release. Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-17193
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The message-page.jsp error page used the value of the HTTP request header X-ProxyContextPath without sanitization, resulting in a reflected XSS attack. Mitigation: The fix to correctly parse and sanitize the request attribute value was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.8.0 release. Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.
osv:CVE-2018-17193
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"summary": "The message-page.jsp error page used the value of the HTTP request header X-ProxyContextPath without sanitization, resulting in a reflected XSS attack. Mitigation: The fix to correctly parse and sanitize the request attribute value was applied on the Apache NiFi 1.8.0 release. Users running a prior 1.x release should upgrade to the appropriate release.",
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"GHSA-4qq9-rrq6-48ff"
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:45.607649259Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 436149,
"published_at": "2018-12-19T14:29:00.393+00:00"
}