Apache Cassandra up to 5.0.1 permission

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Apache Cassandra up to 3.0.29/3.11.16/4.0.14/4.1.6/5.0.1. Impacted is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in permission. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-23015. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apache Cassandra up to 3.0.29/3.11.16/4.0.14/4.1.6/5.0.1. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-275. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at lists.apache.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-23015 since 01/10/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/15/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1222 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 3.0.30, 3.11.17, 4.0.15, 4.1.7 or 5.0.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Apache

Name

• Cassandra

Version

• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.0.8
• 3.0.9
• 3.0.10
• 3.0.11
• 3.0.12
• 3.0.13
• 3.0.14
• 3.0.15
• 3.0.16
• 3.0.17
• 3.0.18
• 3.0.19
• 3.0.20
• 3.0.21
• 3.0.22
• 3.0.23
• 3.0.24
• 3.0.25
• 3.0.26
• 3.0.27
• 3.0.28
• 3.0.29
• 3.11.0
• 3.11.1
• 3.11.2
• 3.11.3
• 3.11.4
• 3.11.5
• 3.11.6
• 3.11.7
• 3.11.8
• 3.11.9
• 3.11.10
• 3.11.11
• 3.11.12
• 3.11.13
• 3.11.14
• 3.11.15
• 3.11.16
• 4.0.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.0.5
• 4.0.6
• 4.0.7
• 4.0.8
• 4.0.9
• 4.0.10
• 4.0.11
• 4.0.12
• 4.0.13
• 4.0.14
• 4.1.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.1.3
• 4.1.4
• 4.1.5
• 4.1.6
• 5.0.0
• 5.0.1

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apache.org/

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