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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-02-06 07:09

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions

Details

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.

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}

CVE-2025-23015 (GCVE-0-2025-23015)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-04 09:37 – Updated: 2025-02-15 00:10

Title

Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions

Summary

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.

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-04 18:28 UTC

CWE

CWE-267 - Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://lists.apache.org/thread/jmks4msbgkl65ssg6…	vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/03/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/11/1
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2025021…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Cassandra	Affected: 3.0.0 , ≤ 3.0.30 (semver) Affected: 3.1.0 , ≤ 3.11.17 (semver) Affected: 4.0.0 , ≤ 4.0.15 (semver) Affected: 4.1.0 , ≤ 4.1.7 (semver) Affected: 5.0.0 , ≤ 5.0.2 (semver)

Credits

Adam Pond of Apple Services Engineering Security Ali Mirheidari of Apple Services Engineering Security Terry Thibault of Apple Services Engineering Security Will Brattain of Apple Services Engineering Security

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