diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index bce299e91cf..f0451fb5cd4 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -329,6 +329,8 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-16667: Fixed dense/sparse representation in LTR module. (Anna Ruggero, Alessandro Benedetti)
 
+* SOLR-17800: Security Manager should handle symlink on /tmp (Kevin Risden)
+
 Dependency Upgrades
 ---------------------
 * SOLR-17471: Upgrade Lucene to 9.12.1. (Pierre Salagnac, Christine Poerschke)
diff --git a/solr/bin/solr b/solr/bin/solr
index 8d2194e3763..c3b341eac0b 100755
--- a/solr/bin/solr
+++ b/solr/bin/solr
@@ -495,9 +495,10 @@ function jetty_port() {
 # useful for doing cross-platform work from the command-line using Java
 function run_tool() {
 
-  # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2086,SC2164
   "$JAVA" $SOLR_SSL_OPTS $AUTHC_OPTS ${SOLR_ZK_CREDS_AND_ACLS:-} ${SOLR_TOOL_OPTS:-} -Dsolr.install.dir="$SOLR_TIP" \
     -Dlog4j.configurationFile="$DEFAULT_SERVER_DIR/resources/log4j2-console.xml" -Dsolr.pid.dir="$SOLR_PID_DIR" \
+    -Djava.io.tmpdir="$(cd "${TMPDIR:-${TEMP:-${TMP:-/tmp}}}"; pwd -P)" \
     -classpath "$DEFAULT_SERVER_DIR/solr-webapp/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/*:$DEFAULT_SERVER_DIR/lib/ext/*:$DEFAULT_SERVER_DIR/lib/*" \
     org.apache.solr.cli.SolrCLI "$@"
 
@@ -517,8 +518,9 @@ function stop_solr() {
 
   if [ -n "$SOLR_PID"  ]; then
     echo -e "Sending stop command to Solr running on port $SOLR_PORT ... waiting up to $SOLR_STOP_WAIT seconds to allow Jetty process $SOLR_PID to stop gracefully."
-    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-    "$JAVA" $SOLR_SSL_OPTS $AUTHC_OPTS ${SOLR_TOOL_OPTS:-} -jar "$DIR/start.jar" "STOP.PORT=$THIS_STOP_PORT" "STOP.KEY=$STOP_KEY" --stop || true
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2086,SC2164
+    "$JAVA" -Djava.io.tmpdir="$(cd "${TMPDIR:-${TEMP:-${TMP:-/tmp}}}"; pwd -P)" $SOLR_SSL_OPTS $AUTHC_OPTS ${SOLR_TOOL_OPTS:-} \
+      -jar "$DIR/start.jar" "STOP.PORT=$THIS_STOP_PORT" "STOP.KEY=$STOP_KEY" --stop || true
       (loops=0
       while true
       do
@@ -1311,9 +1313,11 @@ function start_solr() {
   # Add vector optimizations module
   SCRIPT_SOLR_OPTS+=("--add-modules" "jdk.incubator.vector")
 
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2164
   SOLR_START_OPTS=('-server' "${JAVA_MEM_OPTS[@]}" "${GC_TUNE_ARR[@]}" "${GC_LOG_OPTS[@]}" "${IP_ACL_OPTS[@]}" \
     "${REMOTE_JMX_OPTS[@]}" "${CLOUD_MODE_OPTS[@]}" -Dsolr.log.dir="$SOLR_LOGS_DIR" \
     "-Djetty.port=$SOLR_PORT" "-DSTOP.PORT=$stop_port" "-DSTOP.KEY=$STOP_KEY" \
+    "-Djava.io.tmpdir=$(cd "${TMPDIR:-${TEMP:-${TMP:-/tmp}}}"; pwd -P)" \
     # '-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow' ensures stack traces in errors,
     # users who don't care about useful error msgs can override in SOLR_OPTS with +OmitStackTraceInFastThrow
     "${SOLR_HOST_ARG[@]}" "-Duser.timezone=$SOLR_TIMEZONE" "-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow" \