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CVE-2021-29262: Misapplied Zookeeper ACLs can result in leakage of configured authentication and authorization settings
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2021-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-522
Description
When starting Apache Solr versions prior to 8.8.2, configured with the SaslZkACLProvider or VMParamsAllAndReadonlyDigestZkACLProvider and no existing security.json znode, if the optional read-only user is configured then Solr would not treat that node as a sensitive path and would allow it to be readable. Additionally, with any ZkACLProvider, if the security.json is already present, Solr will not automatically update the ACLs.
Affected products
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Solr: before 8.8.2 — fixed in 8.8.2
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Solr 8.8.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1171f6417eeb6d5e1206d53e2b2ff2d6ee14026f8b595ef7d8a33b79%40%3Coak-issues.jackrabbit.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1e92a2eff6c47a65c4a6e95e809a9707181de76f8062403a0bea1012%40%3Coak-issues.jackrabbit.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r51b29ff62060b67bc9999ded5e252b36b09311fe5a02d27f6de3e4d3%40%3Coak-issues.jackrabbit.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r536da4c4e4e406f7843461cc754a3d0a3fe575aa576e2b71a9cd57d0%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7151081abab92a827a607205c4260b0a3d22280b52d15bc909177608%40%3Coak-issues.jackrabbit.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8d35eeb9a470d2682b5bcf3be0b8942faa7e28f9ca5861c058d17fff%40%3Coak-issues.jackrabbit.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9c4ce6903218c92ef2583070e64af5a69e483821c4b3016dc41e3c6f%40%3Coak-issues.jackrabbit.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb6db683903174eaa44ec80cc118a38574319b0d4181f36b61ee6278f%40%3Cdev.jackrabbit.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbc680cbfd745f22d182158217428a296e8e398cde16f3f428fe4bddc%40%3Coak-issues.jackrabbit.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd85f87e559ee27e9c69795e3ad93a77621895e0328ea3df41d711d72%40%3Coak-commits.jackrabbit.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ref84e60192f4bdc3206b247f260513e8d4e71f3e200792f75386d07a%40%3Cdev.jackrabbit.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210604-0009/
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