CVE-2025-26467 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Apache Cassandra, specifically affecting version 4.0.16. An attacker with MODIFY permission on all keyspaces can escalate their privileges to superuser within the targeted Cassandra cluster through unsafe actions to a system resource. This vulnerability is rated as High severity (CVSS 8.8), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring only low privileges for a network-based attack, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no known 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.11.0, < 3.11.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apache:cassandra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.17CPE 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 (4.0.16 only)
Aug 25, 2025org.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)
Aug 25, 2025