lucene-solr — security advisory
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.
- Products
- lucene-solr
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.6.2+dfsg-23
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13941
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13941
lucene-solr
Fixed versions: 3.6.2+dfsg-23
lucene-solr
Fixed versions: 3.6.2+dfsg-23
lucene-solr
Fixed versions: 3.6.2+dfsg-23
Complete source record
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