Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPAC… (CVE-2025-23015)

Summary

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

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami cassandra

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"3.0.0"},{"fixed":"3.0.31"},{"introduced":"3.1.0"},{"fixed":"3.11.18"},{"introduced":"4.0.0"},{"fixed":"4.0.16"},{"introduced":"4.1.0"},{"fixed":"4.1.8"},{"introduced":"5.0.0"},{"fixed":"5.0.3"}]}]

References

advisory lists.apache.org
advisory openwall.com
advisory openwall.com
advisory security.netapp.com
web nvd.nist.gov