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CVE-2020-13941

Reported in SOLR-14515 (private) and fixed in SOLR-14561 (public), released in Solr version 8.6.0.

Technology

Apache Solr

CVSS Score

8.8 / 10.0

Affected Versions

<8.6.0

Upstream Fix

See upstream advisory

Published

August 17, 2020

OSSeva Coverage

Fixed upstream

Description

Reported in SOLR-14515 (private) and fixed in SOLR-14561 (public), released in Solr version 8.6.0. The Replication handler (https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_6/index-replication.html#http-api-commands-for-the-replicationhandler) allows commands backup, restore and deleteBackup. Each of these take a location parameter, which was not validated, i.e you could read/write to any location the solr user can access.

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