CVE-2025-23015

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache Cassandra versions 3.0.30, 3.11.17, 4.0.15, 4.1.7, 5.0.2

Description A privilege escalation issue exists in Apache Cassandra, where a 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.

Recommendations To resolve the issue, upgrade to versions 3.0.31, 3.11.18, 4.0.16, 4.1.8, or 5.0.3, which fixes the issue. Operators should review data access rules for potential breaches.