Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:2017126290000000
Revision Date:2017-10-14Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-12629 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - high.
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. Michael Stepankin and Olga Barinova discovered that Apache Lucene was vulnerable to an XXE attack. An attacker could use this vulnerability to remotely execute code.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-12629
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND lucene-solr package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1').
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