QID 731151

Date Published: 2024-02-19

QID 731151: Apache Solr Insufficiently Protected Credentials Vulnerability

Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites

CVE-2023-50291 : Apache Solr can leak certain passwords due to System Property redaction logic inconsistencies.
Affected Versions:
Solr 6.0.0 to 8.11.2
Solr 9.0.0 before 9.3.0

QID Detection Logic:
This QID sends a HTTP GET request to "solr/admin/info/system" endpoint and check for Apache Solr Version.

Note: This issue has Workaround and Mitigation, hence the detection is kept as potential.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can leak certain passwords due to System Property redaction logic inconsistencies

CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Low - 2.1 severity.

Solution

Customers are advised to upgrade to Apache Solr 9.3.0 or 8.11.3 or later version to remediate this vulnerability. For more information please refer to Apache Solr Security advisoryWorkaround:
Users who cannot upgrade can also use the following Java system property to fix the issue: -Dsolr.redaction.system.pattern=".*(password|secret|basicauth).*"

Vendor References

Apache Solr advisory - solr.apache.org/security.html#cve-2023-50291-apache-solr-can-leak-certain-passwords-due-to-system-property-redaction-logic-inconsistencies

CVEs related to QID 731151

CVE-2023-50291 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
Apache Solr advisory			solr.apache.org/security.html#cve-2023-50291-apache-solr-can-leak-certain-passwords-due-to-system-property-redaction-logic-inconsistencies

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