[NIFI-5366] Implement Content Security Policy frame-ancestors directive

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: Core Framework
• Labels: frame header http security
• Assignee: Nathan Gough
• Reporter: Andy LoPresto
• Created: 03/Jul/18 02:32
• Updated: 06/Sep/18 14:28
• Resolved: 06/Sep/18 00:41

Description

The X-Frame-Options headers [1] currently in place to prevent malicious framing / clickjacking [2] are superseded by and should be replaced by the Content Security Policy frame-ancestors [3] directive.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7034
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking
[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Security-Policy/frame-ancestors

Issue Links

• Is contained by: NIFI-5458 Improve NiFi TLS and certificate management
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2989