Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting org.apache.nifi:nifi-web-security Open this link in a new tab package, versions [1.0.0,1.12.0)
Attack Complexity
Low
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHENIFI-1015374
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published
2 Oct 2020
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disclosed
2 Oct 2020
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credit
Unknown
Introduced: 2 Oct 2020
CVE-2020-9487 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.nifi:nifi-web-security
to version 1.12.0 or higher.
Overview
org.apache.nifi:nifi-web-security is a system to process and distribute data.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The NiFi download token (one-time password) mechanism used a fixed cache size and did not authenticate a request to create a download token, only when attempting to use the token to access the content. An unauthenticated user could repeatedly request download tokens, preventing legitimate users from requesting download tokens.
Details
Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.
Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.
One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.
When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.
Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:
High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.
Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm
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