CVE-2025-23015
Published:February 04, 2025
Updated:August 24, 2026
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.
Affected Packages
org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=3.1 <3.11.18Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.11.18org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=4.0-alpha1 <4.0.16Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.0.16org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=0.7.0-rc4 <3.0.31Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.0.31org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=4.1-alpha1 <4.1.8Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.1.8org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=5.0-alpha1 <5.0.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 5.0.3Additional Notes
The description of this vulnerability differs from MITRE.
Related Resources (10)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
8.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
EPSS
Base Score:
0.98