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CVE-2026-27314

HIGH SEVERITY

CVSS Score & Metrics

Base Score
8.8 / 10
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Description

Privilege escalation in Apache Cassandra 5.0 on an mTLS environment using MutualTlsAuthenticator allows a user with only CREATE permission to associate their own certificate identity with an arbitrary role,
including a superuser role, and authenticate as that role via ADD IDENTITY.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 5.0.7+, which fixes this issue.

Vulnerability Details

Published Date
Last Modified
CWE ID
CWE-267
Source
NVD
Vendor
Apache Software Foundation
Product
Apache Cassandra

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