GHSA-5c4f-pxmx-xcm4

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5c4f-pxmx-xcm4

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-5c4f-pxmx-xcm4/GHSA-5c4f-pxmx-xcm4.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-5c4f-pxmx-xcm4

Aliases

BIT-cassandra-2025-26467
CVE-2025-26467

Downstream

MINI-34w9-v8jh-6837

Published

2025-08-25T15:32:00Z

Modified

2025-08-27T09:42:09.447589Z

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: 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

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-08-25T14:15:30Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-267"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-08-25T21:48:56Z"
}

References

Affected packages

Maven / org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all

Package

Name: org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/org.apache.cassandra/cassandra-all

GHSA-5c4f-pxmx-xcm4

Affected packages

Maven / org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all

Package

Affected ranges

Affected versions

4.*