CVE-2025-26467

Estado: AnalizadaAlta (8.8)—

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 3.0.30, 3.11.17, 4.0.16, 4.1.7, 5.0.2, but this advisory is only for 4.0.16 because the fix to CVE-2025-23015 was incorrectly applied to 4.0.16, so that version is still affected.

Users in the 4.0 series are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.17 which fixes the issue. Users from 3.0, 3.11, 4.1 and 5.0 series should follow recommendation from CVE-2025-23015.

CVSS

Versión: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Puntuación base: 8.8

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.52%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 42
Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK

Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.

ExplotaciónT1210 Exploitation of Remote Serviceslateral movement85 %
Impacto principalT1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation90 %
Impacto secundarioT1098 Account Manipulationpersistence · privilege escalation75 %

Usuario autenticado (PR:L) con permisos MODIFY escala privilegios a superuser en Cassandra remoto (AV:N): T1210. Logra escalada (T1068) y control de cuentas de administrador (T1098).

Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.

🛡️ Mitigaciones ATT&CK que cubren estas técnicas

Threat Intelligence Program Privileged Account Management Network Segmentation Disable or Remove Feature or Program Application Isolation and Sandboxing Exploit Protection

Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Apache — Cassandra

CWE

CWE-267

Referencias

https://lists.apache.org/thread/xxj36rr4d6mzyqpld05dn8b9951hfpz7

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