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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
- 3.6.2+dfsg-1, 3.6.2+dfsg-10, 3.6.2+dfsg-11, 3.6.2+dfsg-18~18.04, 3.6.2+dfsg-18~18.04.1~esm2, 3.6.2+dfsg-2, 3.6.2+dfsg-20, 3.6.2+dfsg-22, 3.6.2+dfsg-24, 3.6.2+dfsg-26, 3.6.2+dfsg-27, 3.6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1, 3.6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm2, 3.6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm4, 3.6.2+dfsg-7, 3.6.2+dfsg-8, 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1, 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1+esm1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13941
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:37 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:UBUNTU-CVE-2020-13941
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Complete source record
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