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high 7.5

CVE-2018-1308 in the critical feed json

There is a XML external entity expansion (XXE) vulnerability in Apache Solr

published 2018-04-09 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-3pph-2595-cgfh , EUVD-2018-0489

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
20.8%
EPSS 20.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.solr:solr-core 6.6.3, 7.3.0
  • lucene-solr Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.6.2+dfsg-12

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1308

  • lucene-solr Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 3.6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1308

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-1308 updated cvss 7.5

Solr: XML external entity expansion in handler/dataimport/DataImporter.java allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files

  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11 solr-core solr-core Red Hat Fuse 7 camel Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 solr-core solr-core Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 solr-core solr-core Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 solr-core solr-core Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 camel
    +3 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 solr solr Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 solr-core solr-core Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 solr-core solr-core
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

20.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.solr:solr-core
>=1.2, <6.6.3
>=7.0.0, <7.3.0
6.6.3
7.3.0

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Solr

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

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