Vulnerability CVE-2013-6408
Published: 2013-12-07   Modified: 2013-12-08

Description:
The DocumentAnalysisRequestHandler in Apache Solr before 4.3.1 does not properly use the EmptyEntityResolver, which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via XML data containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-6407.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Apache Solr XXE
David Jorm
29.11.2013

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
Partial
Affected software
Apache -> SOLR 

 References:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4881
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/29/2
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/branches/branch_4x/solr/CHANGES.txt?view=markup
http://secunia.com/advisories/59372
http://secunia.com/advisories/55542
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0029.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1844.html
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