CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-9803

Improper Authentication

Published: Sep 18, 2017 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Apache Solrs Kerberos plugin can be configured to use delegation tokens, which allows an application to reuse the authentication of an end-user or another application. There are two issues with this functionality (when using SecurityAwareZkACLProvider type of ACL provider e.g. SaslZkACLProvider). Firstly, access to the security configuration can be leaked to users other than the solr super user. Secondly, malicious users can exploit this leaked configuration for privilege escalation to further expose/modify private data and/or disrupt operations in the Solr cluster. The vulnerability is fixed from Apache Solr 6.6.1 onwards.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Solr Apache 6.2.0 (including) 6.2.0 (including)
Solr Apache 6.2.1 (including) 6.2.1 (including)
Solr Apache 6.3.0 (including) 6.3.0 (including)
Solr Apache 6.4.0 (including) 6.4.0 (including)
Solr Apache 6.4.1 (including) 6.4.1 (including)
Solr Apache 6.4.2 (including) 6.4.2 (including)
Solr Apache 6.5.0 (including) 6.5.0 (including)
Solr Apache 6.5.1 (including) 6.5.1 (including)
Solr Apache 6.6.0 (including) 6.6.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

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