CVE-2020-13941: Improper Input Validation

February 10, 2022

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

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-2467-h365-j7hm
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13941

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