CVE-2026-27314

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-27314
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-27314.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-27314
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2026-04-07T16:33:44.448Z
Modified
2026-07-08T07:48:30.229803115Z
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
Summary
Apache Cassandra: Privilege escalation via ADD IDENTITY authorization bypass
Details

Privilege escalation in Apache Cassandra 5.0 on an mTLS environment using MutualTlsAuthenticator allows a user with only CREATE permission to associate their own certificate identity with an arbitrary role, including a superuser role, and authenticate as that role via ADD IDENTITY.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 5.0.7+, which fixes this issue.

Database specific
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "5.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "5.0.6"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/27xxx/CVE-2026-27314.json",
    "cna_assigner": "apache",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-267"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/cassandra

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/apache/cassandra
Events
Database specific
{
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "5.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.0.7"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-27314.json"