CVE-2018-1308

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-04-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

This vulnerability in Apache Solr 1.2 to 6.6.2 and 7.0.0 to 7.2.1 relates to an XML external entity expansion (XXE) in the `&dataConfig=<inlinexml>` parameter of Solr's DataImportHandler. It can be used as XXE using file/ftp/http protocols in order to read arbitrary local files from the Solr server or the internal network.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Solr: from 1.2 through 6.6.2; from 7.0.0 through 7.2.1
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

References

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-11971
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00025.html
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201804.mbox/%3C000001d3cf68%245ac69af0%241053d0d0%24%40apache.org%3E
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4194
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-11971
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00025.html
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201804.mbox/%3C000001d3cf68%245ac69af0%241053d0d0%24%40apache.org%3E
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4194

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