CVE-2025-23015

Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Feb 4, 2025
Updated: Feb 15, 2025
Reserved: Jan 10, 2025

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	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-267 Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache CassandraApache Software Foundation	3.0.0 through 3.0.30Affected 3.1.0 through 3.11.17Affected 4.0.0 through 4.0.15Affected 4.1.0 through 4.1.7Affected 5.0.0 through 5.0.2Affected

References

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