Security Bulletin
Summary
There are vulnerabilities in privilege escalation and arbitrary filepath write-access that affect Apache Solr used by IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2025-24814
DESCRIPTION: Core creation allows users to replace "trusted" configset files with arbitrary configuration
Solr instances that (1) use the "FileSystemConfigSetService" component (the default in "standalone" or "user-managed" mode), and (2) are running without authentication and authorization are vulnerable to a sort of privilege escalation wherein individual "trusted" configset files can be ignored in favor of potentially-untrusted replacements available elsewhere on the filesystem. These replacement config files are treated as "trusted" and can use "" tags to add to Solr's classpath, which an attacker might use to load malicious code as a searchComponent or other plugin.
This issue affects all Apache Solr versions up through Solr 9.7. Users can protect against the vulnerability by enabling authentication and authorization on their Solr clusters or switching to SolrCloud (and away from "FileSystemConfigSetService"). Users are also recommended to upgrade to Solr 9.8.0, which mitigates this issue by disabling use of "" tags by default.
CWE: CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
CVSS Source: CISA ADP
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-52012
DESCRIPTION: Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in Apache Solr.
Solr instances running on Windows are vulnerable to arbitrary filepath write-access, due to a lack of input-sanitation in the "configset upload" API. Commonly known as a "zipslip", maliciously constructed ZIP files can use relative filepaths to write data to unanticipated parts of the filesystem.
This issue affects Apache Solr: from 6.6 through 9.7.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.8.0, which fixes the issue. Users unable to upgrade may also safely prevent the issue by using Solr's "Rule-Based Authentication Plugin" to restrict access to the configset upload API, so that it can only be accessed by a trusted set of administrators/users.
CWE: CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal
CVSS Source: CISA ADP
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| Log Analysis | 1.3.5.3 |
| Log Analysis | 1.3.6.0 |
| Log Analysis | 1.3.6.1 |
| Log Analysis | 1.3.7.0 |
| Log Analysis | 1.3.7.1 |
| Log Analysis | 1.3.7.2 |
| Log Analysis | 1.3.8.0 |
| Log Analysis | 1.3.8.1 |
Remediation/Fixes
| Principal Product and Version(s) | Fix details |
| IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis version 1.3.5.3, 1.3.6.0, 1.3.6.1, 1.3.7.0, 1.3.7.1, 1.3.7.2, 1.3.8.0, 1.3.8.1 | IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by applying 1.3.8.2 (1.3.8-TIV-IOALA-FP2) available from IBM fix central. |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
14 Apr 2025: Initial Publication
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Document Information
Modified date:
14 April 2025
Initial Publish date:
14 April 2025
UID
ibm17230830