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HIGHFixed upstream
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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