High severity · published Mar 8, 2019
CVE-2017-3164
Server Side Request Forgery in Apache Solr, versions 1.3 until 7.6 (inclusive)
7.5
CVSS
19.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Server Side Request Forgery in Apache Solr, versions 1.3 until 7.6 (inclusive). Since the "shards" parameter does not have a corresponding whitelist mechanism, a remote attacker with access to the server could make Solr perform an HTTP GET request to any reachable URL.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)19.4% · higher than 97% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AS
Apache Solr · Apache Software Foundation
Apache Solr 1.3.0 to 1.4.1, 3.1.0 to 3.6.2, 4.0.0 to 4.10.4, 5.0.0 to 5.5.5, 6.0.0 to 6.6.5, 7.0.0 to 7.6.0 · source: vendor
SO
Solr · Apache
1.3.0 through 7.6.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-3164
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-3164
Mailing List
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201902.mbox/%3CCAECwjAVjBN%3DwO5rYs6ktAX-5%3D-f5JDFwbbTSM2TTjEbGO5jKKA%40mail.gmail.com%3E
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107026
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/43026507844ada1ac658ccf7bc939378c13e492fd6538416ce65df39%40%3Cdev.lucene.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/75dc651478f9d04505b46d44fe3ac739e7aaf3d7bf1257973685f8f7%40%3Cdev.lucene.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/bcce5a9c532b386c68dab2f6b3ce8b0cc9b950ec551766e76391caa3%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ca3105b6934ccd28e843dffe39724f6963ff49825e9b709837203649%40%3Cdev.lucene.apache.org%3E
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