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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/03/2
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/11/1
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250214-0006/
Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread/jmks4msbgkl65ssg69x728sv1m0hwz3s
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0088
EPSS Percentile
54.2%
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