[NIFI-8948] Upgrade Spring Framework to 5.3.9 and Spring Security to 5.5.1

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.15.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.15.0
• Component/s: Core Framework, MiNiFi, NiFi Registry, Security
• Assignee: David Handermann
• Reporter: David Handermann
• Created: 26/Jul/21 18:53
• Updated: 23/Aug/21 19:15
• Resolved: 27/Jul/21 08:22

Description

Spring Framework 5.3.9 includes a number of minor improvements over version 5.3.8.

Spring Security 5.5.1 aligns with Spring Framework 5.3.9 and addresses CVE-2021-22119 in spring-security-oauth2-client, which NiFi does not use, but appears linked in vulnerability reports.

Issue Links

• fixes: NIFI-9019 Redis Sentinel Database index > 0 connections error in v. 1.14.0
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5252