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What is this endpoint?

solr/

Apache Solr

What an attacker could do

An unauthenticated Solr admin interface allows querying and modifying indexed data and, via the VelocityResponseWriter or config API, remote code execution on the search server.

How to defend it

Bind Solr to localhost or an internal network, require authentication and authorization, disable the Velocity response writer, and place it behind a reverse proxy with access controls.

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