CVE-2025-26467 — Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in Apache Cassandra

CWE-267 — Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions5 documents5 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Apache CassandraApache Software Foundation Apache Cassandra
Timeline
PublishedAug 25

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 3.0.30, 3.11.17, 4.0.16, 4.1.7, 5.0.2, but this advisory is only for 4.0.16 because the fix…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDapache/cassandra3.0.0 — 3.0.31+4

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions (4.0.16 only)↗2025-08-25
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OSV
Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions (4.0.16 only)↗2025-08-25
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CVEList
Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions (4.0.16 only)↗2025-08-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all: Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions (4.0.16 only)↗2025-08-25
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