Can dovecot be leveraged to exploit Solr/Log4shell?

[Alessio Cecchi]

Hi,

for Solr you can edit your solr.in.sh file to include:

SOLR_OPTS="$SOLR_OPTS -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true"

and should be enough to prevent this vulnerability.

Ciao

Il 13/12/21 23:43, Joseph Tam ha scritto:
>
> I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned yet.
>
> An internet red alert went out Friday on a new zero-day exploit. It is an
> input validation problem where Java's Log4j module can be instructed via
> a specially crafted string to fetch and execute code from a remote LDAP
> server.  It has been designated the Log4shell exploit (CVE-2021-44228).
>
> Although I don't use it, I immediately thought of Solr, which provides
> some dovecot installations with search indexing.  Can dovecot be made
> to pass on arbitrary loggable strings to affected versions of Solr 
> (7.4.0-7.7.3,
> 8.0.0-8.11.0)?
>
> Those running Solr to implement Dovecot FTS should look at
>
>     https://solr.apache.org/security.html#apache-solr-affected-by-apache-log4j-cve-2021-44228 
>
>
> Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>

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