GHSA-998j-j6v9-5846

Apache Solr UpdateRequestHandler for XML resolves XML External Entities

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-6407

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	org.apache.solr:solr-core	< 4.1.0	4.1.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The UpdateRequestHandler for XML in Apache Solr before 4.1 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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6407 advisory
https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/commit/f230486ce6707762c1a6e81655d0fac52887906d web
https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr package
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3895 web
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1844.html web
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0029.html web
http://secunia.com/advisories/55542 web
http://secunia.com/advisories/59372 web
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/branches/branch_4x/solr/CHANGES.txt?view=markup web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/29/2 web