Medium severity · published Jan 15, 2024
CVE-2023-50290
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Solr
6.5
CVSS
68.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Solr.
The Solr Metrics API publishes all unprotected environment variables available to each Apache Solr instance. Users are able to specify which environment variables to hide, however, the default list is designed to work for known secret Java system properties. Environment variables cannot be strictly defined in Solr, like Java system properties can be, and may be set for the entire host, unlike Java system properties which are set per-Java-proccess.
The Solr Metrics API is protected by the "metrics-read" permission.
Therefore, Solr Clouds with Authorization setup will only be vulnerable via users with the "metrics-read" permission.
This issue affects Apache Solr: from 9.0.0 before 9.3.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.3.0 or later, in which environment variables are not published via the Metrics API.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)68.4% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SO
Solr · Apache
9.0.0 before 9.3.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50290
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-50290
Vendor Advisory
https://solr.apache.org/security.html#cve-2023-50290-apache-solr-allows-read-access-to-host-environment-variables
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