GHSA-qxpc-96fq-wwmgHighCVSS 8.8
Apache Cassandra is vulnerable to privilege escalation in an mTLS environment using MutualTlsAuthenticator
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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.
🎯 Affected products1
- maven/org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all:>= 5.0-alpha1, < 5.0.7
🔗 References (6)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27314
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/zrng82ddy4rpsmfyk582v6hqxcqrbz7f
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/07/7
- https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/b584a435970e5125e1def5148d943c39569dc7af
- https://github.com/apache/cassandra/releases/tag/cassandra-5.0.7
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qxpc-96fq-wwmg