CVE-2013-6408
MEDIUMEPSS 95th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1844.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0029.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55542
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59372
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/branches/branch_4x/solr/CHANGES.txt?view=markup
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/29/2
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4881
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