CVE-2026-32588 (GCVE-0-2026-32588)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-07 16:42 – Updated: 2026-04-09 14:43
VLAI
Title
Apache Cassandra: Authenticated DoS via ALTER ROLE Password Hashing
Summary
Authenticated DoS over CQL in Apache Cassandra 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 allows authenticated user to raise query latencies via repeated password changes. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 5.0.7, which fixes this issue.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache Cassandra Affected: 4.0 , ≤ 4.0.19 (semver)
Affected: 4.1 , ≤ 4.1.10 (semver)
Affected: 5.0 , ≤ 5.0.6 (semver)
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Credits
Youlong Chen, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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