diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/TestCSVLoader.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/TestCSVLoader.java
index b722929527c..1f31d418f54 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/TestCSVLoader.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/TestCSVLoader.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.solr.handler;
 
+import org.apache.lucene.util._TestUtil;
 import org.apache.solr.SolrTestCaseJ4;
 import org.apache.solr.request.LocalSolrQueryRequest;
 import org.apache.solr.common.params.CommonParams;
@@ -39,9 +40,9 @@ public class TestCSVLoader extends SolrTestCaseJ4 {
     initCore("solrconfig.xml","schema12.xml");
   }
 
-  String filename = "solr_tmp.csv";
+  String filename;
   String def_charset = "UTF-8";
-  File file = new File(filename);
+  File file;
 
   @Override
   @Before
@@ -49,6 +50,9 @@ public class TestCSVLoader extends SolrTestCaseJ4 {
     // if you override setUp or tearDown, you better call
     // the super classes version
     super.setUp();
+    File tempDir = _TestUtil.getTempDir("TestCSVLoader");
+    file = new File(tempDir, "solr_tmp.csv");
+    filename = file.getPath();
     cleanup();
   }