High
Security advisory
In Apache NiFi 0.0.1 to 1.11.0, the flow fingerprint factory generated flow fingerprints which included sensitive property descriptor values. In the event a node attempted to join a cluster and the cluster flow was not inheritable, the flow fingerprint of both the cluster and local flow was printed, potentially containing sensitive values in plaintext.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-1942
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Apache NiFi 0.0.1 to 1.11.0, the flow fingerprint factory generated flow fingerprints which included sensitive property descriptor values. In the event a node attempted to join a cluster and the cluster flow was not inheritable, the flow fingerprint of both the cluster and local flow was printed, potentially containing sensitive values in plaintext.
osv:CVE-2020-1942
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1942",
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"title": "CVE-2020-1942",
"summary": "In Apache NiFi 0.0.1 to 1.11.0, the flow fingerprint factory generated flow fingerprints which included sensitive property descriptor values. In the event a node attempted to join a cluster and the cluster flow was not inheritable, the flow fingerprint of both the cluster and local flow was printed, potentially containing sensitive values in plaintext.",
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"nifi-0.6.0-RC2",
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}
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],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:01.765860785Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://nifi.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2020-1942"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 439873,
"published_at": "2020-02-11T21:15:11.113+00:00"
}