CVE-2025-23015

HIGH

Apache Cassandra <4.1.8 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 0.0041
EPSS Percentile 61.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-267
Status published
Products (2)
apache/cassandra 3.0.0 - 3.0.31
org.apache.cassandra/cassandra-all 5.0-alpha1 - 5.0.3Maven
Published Feb 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026