VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2013-6408

MEDIUM 6.4EPSS 11.4%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.4%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The DocumentAnalysisRequestHandler in Apache Solr before 4.3.1 does not properly use the EmptyEntityResolver, which 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-6407.

CVSS 2.0: 6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
EPSS: 11.40% probability · 96th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Affected: apache/solr
Source: secalert@redhat.com

EPSS trend

EPSS 11.4% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.