BIT-cassandra-2025-26467

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Import Source
https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/cassandra/BIT-cassandra-2025-26467.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/BIT-cassandra-2025-26467
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Published
2025-08-27T08:36:32.891Z
Modified
2025-08-27T09:42:09.447589Z
Summary
Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions (4.0.16 only)
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 3.0.30, 3.11.17, 4.0.16, 4.1.7, 5.0.2, but this advisory is only for 4.0.16 because the fix to CVE-2025-23015 was incorrectly applied to 4.0.16, so that version is still affected.

Users in the 4.0 series are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.17 which fixes the issue. Users from 3.0, 3.11, 4.1 and 5.0 series should follow recommendation from CVE-2025-23015.

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
4.0.16
Fixed
4.0.17