Apache Camel Lucene Input Validation Bypass via HTTP Headers

Improper Input Validation, Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in Apache Camel Lucene Component. The camel-lucene producer reads the search phrase from an Exchange header (LuceneConstants.HEADER_QUERY) whose value was the plain string QUERY (and RETURN_LUCENE_DOCS for HEADER_RETURN_LUCENE_DOCS). Because these names do not start with the Camel / camel prefix, HttpHeaderFilterStrategy - which blocks only the Camel header namespace on the HTTP boundary - let them pass from an inbound HTTP request straight into the Exchange. In a route that exposes a Lucene query operation behind an HTTP consumer (for example platform-http), any HTTP client could therefore set the QUERY header and have its value executed against the full-text index, overriding the query the route intended to run. Depending on what is indexed, this allows reading documents the request should not have access to (for example a match-all query returns the entire index, or the route's intended per-us

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Analysis

CVE-2026-46585 exposes a critical input validation flaw in Apache Camel's Lucene component where unfiltered HTTP headers bypass security controls. The vulnerability stems from improper header filtering in HttpHeaderFilterStrategy, which only blocks headers with the 'Camel/' or 'camel' prefix. Attackers can inject malicious search queries through standard HTTP headers (LuceneConstants.HEADER_QUERY) that pass through the filter undetected, allowing unauthorized code execution or data exfiltration. This affects any organization using Apache Camel with the Lucene component exposed to untrusted HTTP traffic, particularly in microservices and enterprise integration scenarios where header handling isn't explicitly validated.

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