CVE-2017-9803

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Published 2017-09-18 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.0
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Apache Solr's 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9803

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.solr:solr-core>=6.2.0,<6.6.16.6.1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apachesolr6.2.0
apache apachesolr6.2.1
apache apachesolr6.3.0
apache apachesolr6.4.0
apache apachesolr6.4.1
apache apachesolr6.4.2
apache apachesolr6.5.0
apache apachesolr6.5.1
apache apachesolr6.6.0

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.