CVE-2017-12629

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2018-10-17. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekWeaponized

Also known asEUVD-2018-0640 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-mh7g-99w9-xpjm (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 92%
  • Public exploit code is available (Exploit-DB, marked verified by Exploit-DB)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 92%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Exploit-DB (verified)Exposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
81
EG Risk 81/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation92% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
92%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
92% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 14, 2017

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (9)

Auto-updated Oct 6, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0003
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0002
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3452
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3451
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3244
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3124
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3123
Web page

CVE-2017-12629 - PSIRT.COM

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101261
Web page

oss-security - CVE-2017-12629 Solr: Code execution via entity expansion

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/13/1

Patch Availability(14)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntusolr-tomcat (3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1) @ xenial2026-11-01ubuntu
redhatlucene2023-03-20redhat
redhateap7-jboss-ec2-eap-0:7.0.9-2.GA_redhat_2.ep7.el72018-01-03redhat
redhateap7-wildfly-javadocs-0:7.0.9-2.GA_redhat_3.1.ep7.el62018-01-03redhat
redhateap7-wildfly-javadocs-0:7.0.9-2.GA_redhat_3.1.ep7.el72018-01-03redhat
redhatlucene-core2018-01-03redhat
redhatrh-java-common-lucene-0:4.8.0-6.9.el72017-12-12redhat
redhatrh-java-common-lucene5-0:5.4.1-2.4.el72017-12-12redhat
redhatpatch2017-11-16redhat
redhatpatch2017-11-06redhat
redhateap7-lucene-solr-0:5.3.1-4.redhat_2.1.ep7.el72017-11-06redhat
mavenorg.apache.solr:solr-core @ 6.6.2 (fixes >= 6.0.0, < 6.6.2)—ghsa
mavenorg.apache.solr:solr-core @ 5.5.5 (fixes >= 5.5.0, < 5.5.5)—ghsa
mavenorg.apache.solr:solr-core @ 7.1.0 (fixes >= 7.0.0, < 7.1.0)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(8 across 8 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
lucene-solr—
  • every version up to 3.6.2+dfsg-11: fixed in 3.6.2+dfsg-11
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
lucene-solr—
  • every version up to 3.6.2+dfsg-11: fixed in 3.6.2+dfsg-11
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
lucene-solr—
  • every version up to 3.6.2+dfsg-11: fixed in 3.6.2+dfsg-11
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
lucene-solr—
  • every version up to 3.6.2+dfsg-11: fixed in 3.6.2+dfsg-11
—
Debian:7(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
lucene-solr3.6.0+dfsg-1, 3.6.0+dfsg-1+deb7u1, 3.6.0+dfsg-1+deb7u2
  • every version up to 3.6.0+dfsg-1+deb7u3: fixed in 3.6.0+dfsg-1+deb7u3
—
Debian:8(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
lucene-solr3.6.2+dfsg-5
  • every version up to 3.6.2+dfsg-5+deb8u1: fixed in 3.6.2+dfsg-5+deb8u1
—
Debian:9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
lucene-solr3.6.2+dfsg-10
  • every version up to 3.6.2+dfsg-10+deb9u1: fixed in 3.6.2+dfsg-10+deb9u1
—
Maven(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
org.apache.solr:solr-core5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4
  • 7.0.0 up to 7.1.0: fixed in 7.1.0
  • 6.0.0 up to 6.6.2: fixed in 6.6.2
  • 5.5.0 up to 5.5.5: fixed in 5.5.5
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(5)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 16× in last 7d / 49× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 94 of 96 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 6 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 2 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 21:49 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 21:49 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-01 21:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mh7g-99w9-xpjm · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-01 08:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mh7g-99w9-xpjm · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-01 08:46 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-31 19:47 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-31 19:47 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-30 17:45 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-30 17:45 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  11. 2026-10-29 15:44 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-29 15:44 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-28 13:32 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-28 13:32 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-27 11:19 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-27 11:19 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-26 09:17 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-25 19:39 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-25 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  20. 2026-10-25 07:15 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-25 07:15 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-24 05:12 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-24 05:12 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-23 03:10 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-23 03:10 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-22 01:06 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-22 01:06 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-21 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  4. 2026-10-20 23:00 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-20 23:00 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-19 20:57 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-19 20:57 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-18 18:51 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-18 18:51 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-18 10:40 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-17 16:47 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-17 16:47 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-16 14:42 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-16 14:42 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-15 12:39 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-15 12:39 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-14 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  18. 2026-10-14 07:59 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-14 07:59 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-13 03:11 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-12 20:35 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-12 00:58 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-08 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  24. 2026-10-04 02:14 UTCOSV refresh
  25. 2026-09-30 14:58 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  26. 2026-09-30 09:24 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-09-24 13:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  28. 2026-09-19 15:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  29. 2026-09-17 19:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  30. 2026-09-14 16:14 UTCOSV refresh
  31. 2026-09-12 14:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  32. 2026-09-10 09:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  33. 2026-08-30 19:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  34. 2026-08-28 21:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  35. 2026-08-26 16:13 UTCOSV refresh
  36. 2026-08-24 14:10 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  37. 2026-08-10 06:09 UTCOSV refresh
  38. 2026-08-05 19:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  39. 2026-07-30 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  40. 2026-07-25 06:41 UTCOSV refresh
  41. 2026-07-23 14:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  42. 2026-07-23 01:26 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-07-22 22:05 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-07-19 14:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  45. 2026-07-13 06:09 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  46. 2026-07-12 05:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  47. 2026-07-11 08:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  48. 2026-07-08 01:05 UTCOSV refresh
  49. 2026-07-01 15:02 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  50. 2026-06-25 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  51. 2026-06-23 21:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  52. 2026-06-19 12:55 UTCOSV refresh
  53. 2026-06-16 17:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  54. 2026-06-15 17:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 92% · 99th percentile
  55. 2026-06-04 13:10 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
  56. 2026-05-31 00:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
  57. 2026-05-30 20:53 UTCOSV refresh
  58. 2026-05-28 13:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
  59. 2026-05-26 13:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
  60. 2026-05-20 08:21 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-05-20 04:12 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-05-20 00:03 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-05-19 19:55 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-05-19 15:46 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-05-19 11:38 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-05-19 07:22 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-05-19 03:12 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-05-18 23:04 UTCEG score recompute
  69. 2026-05-18 23:04 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-43009✓ verified
    Published Oct 17, 2017

    Apache Solr 7.0.1 - XML External Entity Expansion / Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2017/CVE-2017-12629.yaml
    Published May 4, 2021

    Apache Solr <= 7.1 - XML Entity Injection

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2017-12629?
CVE-2017-12629 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 14, 2017. 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…
When was CVE-2017-12629 made public?
CVE-2017-12629 was made public on October 14, 2017: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Apache Software Foundation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on October 14, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-12629 actively exploited?
CVE-2017-12629 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: Exploit-DB marks a public exploit for it as verified. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 92% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-12629?
CVE-2017-12629 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2017-12629?
A fix for CVE-2017-12629 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2017-12629 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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