CVE-2025-23015

HIGH

Apache Cassandra <4.1.8 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 48.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-267
Status published

Affected Products (2)

apache/cassandra < 3.0.31
org.apache.cassandra/cassandra-all < 5.0.3Maven

Timeline

Published Feb 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026