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.

This vulnerability in Apache Solr 1.2 < 6.6.2 and 7.0.0 < 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.

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An XML external entity expansion vulnerability was discovered in the DataImportHandler of Solr, a search server based on Lucene, which could result in information disclosure.

It was discovered that there was an XML external entity expansion (XXE) vulnerability in lucene-solr, a search engine library for Java.

It could be exploited to read arbitrary local files from the Solr server or the internal network. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in lucene-solr version 3.6.0+dfsg-1+deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your lucene-solr packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
98923	Apache Solr 7.0.0 < 7.2.1 XML Entity Expansion	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
98922	Apache Solr 1.2.0 < 6.6.2 XML Entity Expansion	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
109589	Debian DSA-4194-1 : lucene-solr - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
109327	Debian DLA-1360-1 : lucene-solr security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2018-1308

high

Tenable Plugins

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high

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