CVE-2026-47846

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Jun 18, 2026
Updated: Jun 18, 2026
Reserved: May 20, 2026

Description

Bitnami Cassandra container images are affected by a retained default superuser vulnerability. When a custom administrator account is configured via the CASSANDRA_USER environment variable, the container initialization script creates the new superuser account but fails to drop the built-in cassandra account in certain scenarios. This leaves the default cassandra:cassandra superuser active as an unintended access path.

Affected versions — Container image: 4.0.x prior to 4.0.20-photon-5-r7; 4.1.x prior to 4.1.11-photon-5-r7; 5.0.x prior to 5.0.8-photon-5-r4 / 5.0.8-debian-12-r3.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Affected Products

Product	Versions
bitnami/cassandraBitnami	4.0.0 to before 4.0.20-photon-5-r7Affected 4.1.0 to before 4.1.11-photon-5-r7Affected 5.0.0 to before 5.0.8-photon-5-r4Affected

References

https://github.com/bitnami/containers/security/advisories/GHSA-8q3j-37vg-8fc2

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