CVE-2020-17516
unknown
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
—
Description
Authentication Bypass in Apache Cassandra
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all | >=2.1.0,<3.0.24 | 3.0.24 |
| Maven | org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all | >=3.11.0,<3.11.10 | 3.11.10 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-17516.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17516
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r81243a412a37a22211754936a13856af07cc68a93d728c52807486e9@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rcb16f36cafa184dd159e94033f87d0fc274c4752d467f3a09f2ceae4@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd84bec24907617bdb72f7ec907cd7437a0fd5a8886eb55aa84dd1eb8@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210521-0002
- http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-user/202102.mbox/%3c6E4340A5-D7BE-4D33-9EC5-3B505A626D8D@apache.org%3e
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.