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CVE-2017-12629

Remote code execution occurs in Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1 by exploiting XXE in conjunction with use of a Config…

Description

Remote code execution occurs in Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1 by exploiting XXE in conjunction with use of a Config API add-listener command to reach the RunExecutableListener class. Elasticsearch, although it uses Lucene, is NOT vulnerable to this. Note that the XML external entity expansion vulnerability occurs in the XML Query Parser which is available, by default, for any query request with parameters deftype=xmlparser and can be exploited to upload malicious data to the /upload request handler or as Blind XXE using ftp wrapper in order to read arbitrary local files from the Solr server. Note also that the second vulnerability relates to remote code execution using the RunExecutableListener available on all affected versions of Solr.

Public exploit

An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.

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Nuclei templates1 template

Exploit-DB1 entry

References tagged exploit1 reference

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Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By apache

  2. · 2 months later

    Published

  3. · 7 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2017-12629, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Critical9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
92.5% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.

Affected products

  • Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1

    • affected Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1
    • unaffected lucene-solr 7.2.0
    • unaffected lucene-solr 8.0.0
    • affected lucene-solr – < 7.1.0

  • Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1

    • affected lucene-solr – < 5.3.1-redhat-2

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

References

24

Sources

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