GHSA-qxpc-96fq-wwmg

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qxpc-96fq-wwmg

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-qxpc-96fq-wwmg/GHSA-qxpc-96fq-wwmg.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-qxpc-96fq-wwmg

Aliases

CVE-2026-27314

Published

2026-04-07T18:31:37Z

Modified

2026-04-08T19:37:19.755202Z

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 is vulnerable to privilege escalation in an mTLS environment using MutualTlsAuthenticator

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

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-04-07T17:16:27Z",
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-267"
    ],
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-04-08T19:22:39Z"
}

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

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

5.0-alpha1

Fixed

5.0.7

Affected versions

5.*

5.0-alpha1

5.0-alpha2

5.0-beta1

5.0-rc1

5.0-rc2

5.0.0

5.0.1

5.0.2

5.0.3

5.0.4

5.0.5

5.0.6

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-qxpc-96fq-wwmg/GHSA-qxpc-96fq-wwmg.json"