CVE-2025-23015 (GCVE-0-2025-23015)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-04 09:37 – Updated: 2025-02-15 00:10
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Title
Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-267 - Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache Cassandra Affected: 3.0.0 , ≤ 3.0.30 (semver)
Affected: 3.1.0 , ≤ 3.11.17 (semver)
Affected: 4.0.0 , ≤ 4.0.15 (semver)
Affected: 4.1.0 , ≤ 4.1.7 (semver)
Affected: 5.0.0 , ≤ 5.0.2 (semver)
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Credits
Adam Pond of Apple Services Engineering Security Ali Mirheidari of Apple Services Engineering Security Terry Thibault of Apple Services Engineering Security Will Brattain of Apple Services Engineering Security
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