CVE-2013-6408

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Solr: through 4.3.0; 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 4.0.0, 4.0.0-alpha, 4.0.0-beta (+3)

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
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

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