CVE-2026-47846

published 2026-06-18

CVE-2026-47846: Bitnami Cassandra container images are affected by a retained default superuser vulnerability. When a custom administrator account is configured via the…

Priority P2 63 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

Bitnami Cassandra container images are affected by a retained default superuser vulnerability. When a custom administrator account is configured via the CASSANDRA_USER environment variable, the container initialization script creates the new superuser account but fails to drop the built-in cassandra account in certain scenarios. This leaves the default cassandra:cassandra superuser active as an unintended access path.

Affected versions — Container image: 4.0.x prior to 4.0.20-photon-5-r7; 4.1.x prior to 4.1.11-photon-5-r7; 5.0.x prior to 5.0.8-photon-5-r4 / 5.0.8-debian-12-r3.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
bitnami	bitnami_cassandra	>= 4.0.0 < 4.0.20-photon-5-r7	4.0.20-photon-5-r7
bitnami	bitnami_cassandra	>= 4.1.0 < 4.1.11-photon-5-r7	4.1.11-photon-5-r7
bitnami	bitnami_cassandra	>= 5.0.0 < 5.0.8-photon-5-r4	5.0.8-photon-5-r4

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