Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions Affecting cassandra-4.1-compat package, versions <4.1.8-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-CASSANDRA41COMPAT-13332308
  • published6 Oct 2025
  • disclosed4 Feb 2025

Introduced: 4 Feb 2025

CVE-2025-23015  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-267  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest cassandra-4.1-compat to version 4.1.8-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cassandra-4.1-compat package and not the cassandra-4.1-compat package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1