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CVE-2025-23015

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.

Published

2025-02-04T10:15:09.097

Last Modified

2025-07-14T12:44:57.403

Status

Analyzed

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 8.8 (HIGH)

Weaknesses

Type: Secondary
CWE-267

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	apache	cassandra	< 3.0.31	Yes
Application	apache	cassandra	< 3.11.18	Yes
Application	apache	cassandra	< 4.0.16	Yes
Application	apache	cassandra	< 4.1.8	Yes
Application	apache	cassandra	< 5.0.3	Yes

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/jmks4msbgkl65ssg69x728sv1m0hwz3s Mailing List, Vendor Advisory, Issue Tracking ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/03/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/11/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250214-0006/ Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)