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Pierre Villard commented on NIFI-10674:
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I think it's worth reopening as it shows that a variable can be used to
reference a sensitive parameter. It's important to note that variables will be
completely removed in NiFi 2.0 as parameters are a much better solution. I
think we should either look at this specific EL function and/or find a way to
make sure that variables and parameters cannot reference each other as it does
not make any sense.
> Sensitive parameter reveal in evaluateELString
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> Key: NIFI-10674
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-10674
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Security, Variable Registry
> Affects Versions: 1.18.0
> Reporter: Gogolev Sergey
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: security
> Attachments: image-2022-10-20-00-06-19-498.png,
> image-2022-10-20-00-07-20-476.png, image-2022-10-20-00-08-52-510.png,
> image-2022-10-20-00-09-57-913.png
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> Not sure it's bug, but security breach. With expression language i can view
> content of sensitive parameter from parameter context. For example:
> # Create parameter context with sensitive parameter
> !image-2022-10-20-00-06-19-498.png!
> # Create variable with name of this sensitive parameter #\{sample}
> !image-2022-10-20-00-07-20-476.png!
> # Create simple flow with EL expression: ${secret:evaluateELString()}
> !image-2022-10-20-00-08-52-510.png!
> # Content of this flowfile will contain sensitive value from parameter
> !image-2022-10-20-00-09-57-913.png!
> I suppose evaluateELString shouldn't access to sensitive parameters.
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