SecuriTricks - CVE-2025-23015

Description

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Product	Versions
Apache Cassandra	3.0.0 - 3.0.30 3.11.0 - 3.11.17 4.0.0 - 4.0.15 4.1.0 - 4.1.7 5.0.0 - 5.0.2

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-267

Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

A particular privilege, role, capability, or right can be used to perform unsafe actions that were not intended, even when it is assigned to the correct entity.

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/jmks4msbgkl65ssg69x728sv1m0hwz3s

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/03/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/11/1

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250214-0006/

CVSS Score

8.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Attack Complexity: LOW
Privileges Required: LOW
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
Integrity Impact: HIGH
Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Timeline

Published: Feb. 4, 2025, 10:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Feb. 15, 2025, 1:15 a.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@apache.org

CVE-2025-23015