Apache Solr vulnerable to XML Bomb
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Mar 14, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Sep 10, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Reviewed
Nov 8, 2022
Last updated
Mar 14, 2023
Solr versions prior to 5.0.0 are vulnerable to an XML resource consumption attack (a.k.a. Lol Bomb) via it?s update handler.?By leveraging XML DOCTYPE and ENTITY type elements, the attacker can create a pattern that will expand when the server parses the XML causing OOMs.
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