CVE-2025-23015Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 37% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 25 days later
· 25 days later
Published
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Cassandra
- affected 3.0.0 – ≤ 3.0.30
- affected 3.1.0 – ≤ 3.11.17
- affected 4.0.0 – ≤ 4.0.15
- affected 4.1.0 – ≤ 4.1.7
- affected 5.0.0 – ≤ 5.0.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.cassandra:cassandra-allGHSA-wmcc-9vch-jmx4 (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/jmks4msbgkl65ssg69x728sv1m0hwz3s (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/03/2 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/11/1 (opens in a new tab)
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250214-0006/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-0230 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-wmcc-9vch-jmx4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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