BIT-cassandra-2025-23015

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Import Source
https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/cassandra/BIT-cassandra-2025-23015.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/BIT-cassandra-2025-23015
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Published
2025-02-06T07:09:06.498Z
Modified
2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z
Summary
Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions
Details

Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Apache Cassandra. An user with MODIFY permission ON ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser within a targeted Cassandra cluster via unsafe actions to a system resource. Operators granting data MODIFY permission on all keyspaces on affected versions should review data access rules for potential breaches.

This issue affects Apache Cassandra through 3.0.30, 3.11.17, 4.0.15, 4.1.7, 5.0.2.

Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 3.0.31, 3.11.18, 4.0.16, 4.1.8, 5.0.3, which fixes the issue.

Database specific
{
    "cpes": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:maven:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
}
References

Affected packages

Bitnami / cassandra

Package

Name
cassandra
Purl
pkg:bitnami/cassandra

Severity

  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
3.0.0
Fixed
3.0.31
Introduced
3.1.0
Fixed
3.11.18
Introduced
4.0.0
Fixed
4.0.16
Introduced
4.1.0
Fixed
4.1.8
Introduced
5.0.0
Fixed
5.0.3