Medium
Security advisory
In the TransformXML processor of Apache NiFi before 1.15.1 an authenticated user could configure an XSLT file which, if it included malicious external entity calls, may reveal sensitive information.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-44145
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In the TransformXML processor of Apache NiFi before 1.15.1 an authenticated user could configure an XSLT file which, if it included malicious external entity calls, may reveal sensitive information.
osv:CVE-2021-44145
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:15.116809963Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-12-17T09:15:07.117+00:00"
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