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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-04-09 08:36

Modified

2026-04-10 09:26

Summary

Apache Cassandra: cqlsh history sensitive information leak

Details

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.20, which fixes this issue.

-- Description: Cassandra's command-line tool, cqlsh, provides a command history feature that allows users to recall previously executed commands using the up/down arrow keys. These history records are saved in the ~/.cassandra/cqlsh_history file in the user's home directory.

However, cqlsh does not redact sensitive information when saving command history. This means that if a user executes operations involving passwords (such as logging in or creating users) within cqlsh, these passwords are permanently stored in cleartext in the history file on the disk.

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  "id": "BIT-cassandra-2026-27315",
  "modified": "2026-04-10T09:26:18.172Z",
  "published": "2026-04-09T08:36:45.141Z",
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CVE-2026-27315 (GCVE-0-2026-27315)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-07 16:40 – Updated: 2026-04-09 14:38

Title

Apache Cassandra: cqlsh history sensitive information leak

Summary

Sensitive Information Leak in cqlsh in Apache Cassandra 4.0 allows access to sensitive information, like passwords, from previously executed cqlsh command via ~/.cassandra/cqlsh_history local file access. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.20, which fixes this issue. -- Description: Cassandra's command-line tool, cqlsh, provides a command history feature that allows users to recall previously executed commands using the up/down arrow keys. These history records are saved in the ~/.cassandra/cqlsh_history file in the user's home directory. However, cqlsh does not redact sensitive information when saving command history. This means that if a user executes operations involving passwords (such as logging in or creating users) within cqlsh, these passwords are permanently stored in cleartext in the history file on the disk.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-532 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Assigner

apache

References

URL

Tags

	https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21180	issue-tracking
	https://lists.apache.org/thread/ft77zrk2mzt8qsch4…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Apache Software Foundation	Apache Cassandra	Affected: 4.0 , ≤ 4.0.19 (semver)

Credits

Youlong Chen, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2026-27315 (GCVE-0-2026-27315)

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