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

CVE-2025-23015

HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 1.01 % · percentile 63 (2026-10-31)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-02-04 09:37 UTC
Updated: 2025-02-15 00:10 UTC
Assigner: apache
NVD status: Analyzed

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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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-267 — Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Advisories

GHSA-wmcc-9vch-jmx4 — Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-0230
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-23015

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 3.0.0 < 3.0.31
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 3.1 < 3.11.18
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.0.0 < 4.0.16
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.1.0 < 4.1.8
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 5.0.0 < 5.0.3

Affected products

Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Cassandra	affected 3.0.0 ≤ 3.0.30 ; affected 3.1.0 ≤ 3.11.17 ; affected 4.0.0 ≤ 4.0.15 ; affected 4.1.0 ≤ 4.1.7 ; affected 5.0.0 ≤ 5.0.2

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD

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