CVE-2025-23015

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23015
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-23015.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-23015
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2025-02-04T09:37:18.580Z
Modified
2026-05-15T04:13:10.126260766Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "3.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.0.30"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "3.1.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.11.17"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "4.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.0.15"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "4.1.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.1.7"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "5.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "5.0.2"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "DESCRIPTION",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "3.0.30"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "apache",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-267"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/23xxx/CVE-2025-23015.json"
}
References

Affected packages