Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions Affecting org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all package, versions [3.0.0,3.0.31)[3.1,3.11.18)[4.0-alpha1,4.1.8)[5.0-alpha1,5.0.3)
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- published5 Feb 2025
- disclosed4 Feb 2025
- creditAdam Pond, Ali Mirheidari, Terry Thibault, Will Brattain
Introduced: 4 Feb 2025
CVE-2025-23015 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all to version 3.0.31, 3.11.18, 4.1.8, 5.0.3 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 Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in auth/Permission.java. A user who has MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser because ALL KEYSPACES allows access and modification of system keyspaces by default.
Note: The fix for this vulnerability was found to have been improperly applied to 4.0.16, and first fixed for 4.0 in 4.0.17. The vulnerability in 4.0.16 is tracked as CVE-2025-26467.