CVE-2025-23015

moderate-risk
Published 2025-02-04

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.41% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.8/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Apache

References (4)

Issue Tracking https://lists.apache.org/thread/jmks4msbgkl65ssg69x728sv1m0hwz3s
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/03/2
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/11/1
Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250214-0006/
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moderate-risk
Severity 30/34 · Critical
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal