CVE-2012-6612

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    CVE-2012-6612

    Published: 7 Dec 2013Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The (1) UpdateRequestHandler for XSLT or (2) XPathEntityProcessor in Apache Solr before 4.1 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, different vectors than CVE-2013-6407.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1844.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0029.html, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3895, http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/branches/branch_4x/solr/CHANGES.txt?view=markup

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High