CVE-2026-68981

Severity CVSS v4.0:

HIGH

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

03/08/2026

Last modified:

03/08/2026

Description

Apache NiFi 1.5.0 through 2.10.0 support gzip-encoded HTTP requests for the application REST API using a Jersey encoding filter. The framework enforced a configurable maximum request size on the compressed payload rather than the decompressed output, allowing a malicious client to send crafted requests that could consume excessive amounts of memory. Upgrading to Apache NiFi 2.11.0 is the recommended mitigation, which relocates response compression to Jetty Server and disables decompression of gzip-encoded HTTP requests.

Impact

Vector 4.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber CVSS v4.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Attack Requirements (AT): None
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Confidentiality (VC): Low
Integrity (VI): Low
Availability (VA): High
Confidentiality (SC): None
Integrity (SI): None
Availability (SA): None
Safety (S): Present
Automatable (AU): Yes
Recovery (R): User
Value Density (V): Concentrated
Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Moderate
Provider Urgency (U): Amber

Base Score 4.0

8.80

Severity 4.0

HIGH

CVE-2026-68981

Description

Impact

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