CVE-2013-6397

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 56.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in SolrResourceLoader in Apache Solr before 4.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) or full pathname in the tr parameter to solr/select/, when the response writer (wt parameter) is set to XSLT. NOTE: this can be leveraged using a separate XXE (XML eXternal Entity) vulnerability to allow access to files across restricted network boundaries.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Solr: through 4.5.1; 4.0.0, 4.0.0-alpha, 4.0.0-beta, 4.1.0, 4.2.0, 4.2.1 (+4)

References

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_6_0/changes/Changes.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1844.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0029.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55730
http://secunia.com/advisories/59372
http://www.agarri.fr/kom/archives/2013/11/27/compromising_an_unreachable_solr_server_with_cve-2013-6397/index.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/27/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63935
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4882
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_6_0/changes/Changes.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1844.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0029.html

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