[NIFI-10086] Upgrade Spring Framework to 5.3.20 and Spring Security to 5.7.1

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.17.0, 1.16.3
• Component/s: Core Framework, Extensions, NiFi Registry
• Labels: dependency-upgrade
• Assignee: David Handermann
• Reporter: David Handermann
• Created: 02/Jun/22 20:57
• Updated: 13/Jun/22 15:35
• Resolved: 03/Jun/22 08:30

Description

Spring Framework 5.3.20 and Spring Security 5.7.1 should be upgraded to resolve several associated vulnerabilities that do not appear to impact NiFi directly

Spring Boot for NiFi Registry should also be also be upgraded to 2.7.0.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6095