Case Study: RCE Vulnerability in Apache NiFi

[castroaj]

References Issue #5

Provided a case-study on CVE-2023-34468 on an RCE vulnerability in Apache NiFi
- The file is attached as msccs-13.md in the java category
- This case study aims to fufill the following issue (#5)

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[castroaj]

Addressed issues mentioned in professor review

• Utilized a spell-checker to find all spelling mistakes within the case study
• Fixed some grammatical issues found throughout the case study

[stevechristeycoley]

Automated Analysis Results of This Use Case

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With technical knowledge work such as this project, it is important to structure information as well as possible, so that it can be processed automatically.

We also want to validate our inputs ;-)

So, this report contains the results of an automated analysis of the provided use case, looking for consistency with the documented format as covered in Section 3 "Case Study Structure" of the Style Guide.

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• David Wheeler may provide guidance on how to handle these reports. We're grateful that you've put in this work already, and we don't want to burden you unnecessarily 'cuz you're probably busy :)
• Our style guide was not always 100% clear (as often happens early in technical knowledge work), so this analysis attempts to automatically resolve potential inconsistencies.
• This report is provided as a convenience. There may be some errors or omissions in this report.
• We will conduct deeper analysis at a later time.

Items are prioritized from Informative, Low, Medium, to High in terms of current importance to the project.

Analyzing Presence of Markdown

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Parser Issues

The following issues were encountered by the parser used to analyze this file. This might explain potential errors and false positives in the subsequent analysis.

• [Info] Inferring that line 1 contains the title

Section Analysis

• [Med] Unexpected/non-standard section name: 'DBCPConnectionPool' (this may break analysis)
• [Med] Unexpected/non-standard section name: 'HikariCPConnectionPool' (this may break analysis)
• [Info] 0 major section-name issues detected.

Analyzing Title Section

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Inferred/Extracted Title begins with text: 'MSCCS :: RCE In Apache NiFi'

• [Low] Title does not contain only capital letters

Analyzing Introduction Section

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Analyzing Software Section

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Analyzing Weakness Section

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Analyzing Vulnerability Section

• [Med] Vulnerability section does not appear to contain a 'vulnerable file:' label

Analyzing Fix Section

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Analyzing References Section

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