Improper Authentication in Apache Solr - CVE-2019-12409
Published: November 21, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU22878
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12409
CWE-ID: CWE-287
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication process.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure default configuration in solr.in.sh of Apache Solr. The "ENABLE_REMOTE_JMX_OPTS" is set to "true" by default, which allows remote JMX client applications. A remote non-authenticated attacker can bypass authentication process and gain execute arbitrary code on the system.
Affected software
Apache Solr
How to mitigate CVE-2019-12409
Install updates from vendor's website.
Apache Solr - update to 8.3.0
External References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6640c7e370fce2b74e466a605a46244ccc40666ad9e3064a4e04a85d@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2019-12409-default-configuration-in-apache-solr-could-lead-to-remote-code-execution
- https://github.com/jas502n/CVE-2019-12409/
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13647