Improper Control of Interaction Frequency Affecting org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all package, versions [4.0-alpha1,4.0.20)[4.1-alpha1,4.1.11)[5.0-alpha1,5.0.7)
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- published9 Apr 2026
- disclosed7 Apr 2026
- creditYoulong Chen
Introduced: 7 Apr 2026
CVE-2026-32588 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all to version 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 5.0.7 or higher.
Overview
org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all is a maven plugin for the Apache Cassandra Project. Which, develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Control of Interaction Frequency via the alterRole path in org/apache/cassandra/auth/CassandraRoleManager.java. An authenticated attacker can increase query latency and overload the auth path by rapidly changing a role's password.
The vulnerable code accepts password updates through CQL role alteration and performs a writetime(salted_hash) lookup on each change, allowing a logged-in user with role-management privileges to trigger repeated expensive auth-table reads and writes.