CVE-2025-23015 is a high-severity Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Apache Cassandra versions through 3.0.30, 3.11.17, 4.0.15, 4.1.7, and 5.0.2. An attacker with MODIFY permission on all keyspaces can escalate to superuser privileges by exploiting unsafe actions on system resources. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.1, < 3.11.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.1.0, < 4.1.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions
Feb 4, 2025org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all: Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions
Feb 4, 2025