# CVE-2020-13941: Reported in SOLR-14515 (private) and fixed in SOLR-14561 (public), released in Solr version 8.6.0.

- Also known as: GHSA-2467-H365-J7HM, BIT-SOLR-2020-13941
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 8.6.0
- Published: 2020-08-17 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a Apache Solr: Prior to 8.6.0
- org.apache.solr:solr-parent (Maven): fixed in 8.6.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a Apache Solr, org.apache.solr:solr-parent, upgrade to a fixed version (8.6.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf54e7912b7d2b72c63ec54a7afa4adcbf16268dcc63253767dd67d60%40%3Cgeneral.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbcd9dff009ed19ffcc2b09784595fc1098fc802a5472f81795f893be%40%3Ccommits.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc400db37710ee79378b6c52de3640493ff538c2beb41cefdbbdf2ab8%40%3Ccommits.submarine.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1d4a247329a8478073163567bbc8c8cb6b49c6bfc2bf58153a857af1%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
- https://github.com/mbadanoiu/CVE-2020-13941

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