Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
Apache Solr (org.apache.solr:solr-core) versions before 4.1.0 are vulnerable to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue in the UpdateRequestHandler for XSLT and in XPathEntityProcessor. A remote attacker can submit XML containing an external entity declaration and reference to trigger it, with an unspecified impact. Upgrade solr-core to 4.1.0 or later.
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Severity and exploitation
No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.10, the 95th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:12 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:12 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-6cpj-3g83-q2j4
- OSV: GHSA-6cpj-3g83-q2j4
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6612
- github.com/apache/lucene-solr/commit/0d21b900975b7048d2e925d852aeacb9bdc6766c
- github.com/apache/lucene-solr/commit/f230486ce6707762c1a6e81655d0fac52887906d
- github.com/apache/lucene-solr
- issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3895
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1844.html
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0029.html
- svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/branches/branch_4x/solr/CHANGES.txt?view=markup