Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in Cassandra - CVE-2025-23015

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Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in Cassandra - CVE-2025-23015

Published: November 24, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU118715
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-23015
CWE-ID: CWE-267
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote user with MODIFY permission ON ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser within a targeted Cassandra cluster via unsafe actions to a system resource.


Affected software

Cassandra
Netcool Operations Insight

How to mitigate CVE-2025-23015

Install updates from vendor's website.

Cassandra - addressed in versions 3.0.31, 3.11.18, 4.0.16, 4.1.8, 5.0.3
Netcool Operations Insight - update to 1.6.15

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