CVE-2025-23015
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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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.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all | >=5.0-alpha1,<5.0.3 | 5.0.3 |
| Maven | org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all | >=4.1-alpha1,<4.1.8 | 4.1.8 |
| Maven | org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all | >=4.0-alpha1,<4.0.16 | 4.0.16 |
| Maven | org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all | >=3.1,<3.11.18 | 3.11.18 |
| Maven | org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all | <3.0.31 | 3.0.31 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23015
- https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/6207a305ba2b0cebc3241e00a843ab5dbf86d2ed
- https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/f33267c8fae6d71166886efc3e7ddda4114ebeef
- https://github.com/apache/cassandra
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/jmks4msbgkl65ssg69x728sv1m0hwz3s
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250214-0006
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/03/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/11/1
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.