Cassandra 3.0.30-5.0.2 Priv Esc via Unsafe Actions (MODIFY Superuser)
CVE-2025-23015 Published on February 4, 2025
Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-23015 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
A particular privilege, role, capability, or right can be used to perform unsafe actions that were not intended, even when it is assigned to the correct entity.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-23015
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Affected Versions
Apache Software Foundation Apache Cassandra:- Version 3.0.0, <= 3.0.30 is affected.
- Version 3.1.0, <= 3.11.17 is affected.
- Version 4.0.0, <= 4.0.15 is affected.
- Version 4.1.0, <= 4.1.7 is affected.
- Version 5.0.0, <= 5.0.2 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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