CVE-2020-13941

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.

Published: Aug 17, 2020
Updated: May 9, 2024
CVE: CVE-2020-13941
GHSA: GHSA-2467-h365-j7hm
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 8.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 6.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-20

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
apache / solr	-	8.6.0
org.apache.solr / solr-parent	-	8.6.0

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CVE-2020-13941

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