CVE-2025-23015

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

04/02/2025

Last modified:

14/07/2025

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.<br /> <br /> This issue affects Apache Cassandra through 3.0.30, 3.11.17, 4.0.15, 4.1.7, 5.0.2.<br /> <br /> 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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

8.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra::::::::	3.0.0 (including)	3.0.31 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra::::::::	3.1 (including)	3.11.18 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra::::::::	4.0.0 (including)	4.0.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra::::::::	4.1.0 (including)	4.1.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra::::::::	5.0.0 (including)	5.0.3 (excluding)

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CVE-2025-23015

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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