CVE-2025-23015

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.

Reserved 2025-01-10 | Published 2025-02-04 | Updated 2025-02-15 | Assigner apache

Problem types

CWE-267 Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

Product status

Default status
unaffected

3.0.0
affected

3.1.0
affected

4.0.0
affected

4.1.0
affected

5.0.0
affected

Credits

Adam Pond of Apple Services Engineering Security finder

Ali Mirheidari of Apple Services Engineering Security finder

Terry Thibault of Apple Services Engineering Security finder

Will Brattain of Apple Services Engineering Security finder

References

lists.apache.org/thread/jmks4msbgkl65ssg69x728sv1m0hwz3s vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-23015)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-23015)

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