{"id":"CVE-2025-26511","aliases":["EUVD-2025-4205","GHSA-mrqp-q7vx-v2cx"],"status":"published","title":"Cassandra-Lucene-Index allows bypass of Cassandra RBAC","description":"Systems running the Instaclustr \nfork of Stratio's Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin versions 4.0-rc1-1.0.0 \nthrough 4.0.16-1.0.0 and 4.1.2-1.0.0 through 4.1.8-1.0.0, installed into\n Apache Cassandra version 4.x, are susceptible to a vulnerability which \nwhen successfully exploited could allow authenticated Cassandra users to\n remotely bypass RBAC and escalate their 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versions 4.0-rc1-1.0.0 \nthrough 4.0.16-1.0.0 and 4.1.2-1.0.0 through 4.1.8-1.0.0, installed into\n Apache Cassandra version 4.x, are susceptible to a vulnerability which \nwhen successfully exploited could allow authenticated Cassandra users to\n remotely bypass RBAC and escalate their privileges.","status":"published","published":"2025-02-13T15:44:06.315Z","modified":"2026-01-22T19:35:19.686Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-863"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:28.250136Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2025-4205","description":"Systems running the Instaclustr \nfork of Stratio's Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin versions 4.0-rc1-1.0.0 \nthrough 4.0.16-1.0.0 and 4.1.2-1.0.0 through 4.1.8-1.0.0, installed into\n Apache Cassandra version 4.x, are susceptible to a vulnerability which \nwhen successfully exploited could allow authenticated Cassandra users to\n remotely bypass RBAC and escalate 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version 4.x.\n\n**Required Configuration for Exploit**\nThese are the conditions required to enable exploit:\n1. Cassandra 4.x\n2. Vulnerable version of the Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin configured for use\n3. Data added to tables\n4. Lucene index created\n5. Cassandra flush has run\n\n**Mitigation/Prevention**\nMitigation requires dropping all Lucene indexes and stopping use of the plugin. Exploit will be possible any time the required conditions are met.\n\n**Solution**\nUpgrade to a fixed version of the Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin.  \nReview users in Cassandra to validate all superuser privileges.","status":"published","published":"2025-02-13T17:16:27Z","modified":"2026-01-22T21:47:03Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-288","CWE-863"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:39:19.525691Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-26511","description":"Systems running the Instaclustr \nfork of Stratio's Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin versions 4.0-rc1-1.0.0 \nthrough 4.0.16-1.0.0 and 4.1.2-1.0.0 through 4.1.8-1.0.0, installed into\n Apache Cassandra version 4.x, are susceptible to a vulnerability which \nwhen successfully exploited could allow authenticated Cassandra users to\n remotely bypass RBAC and escalate their privileges.","status":"published","published":"2025-02-13T16:16:50.27Z","modified":"2026-06-17T09:01:56.487Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-863"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:10:51.445921Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2025-26511","title":"Cassandra-Lucene-Index allows bypass of Cassandra RBAC","description":"Systems running the Instaclustr \nfork of Stratio's Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin versions 4.0-rc1-1.0.0 \nthrough 4.0.16-1.0.0 and 4.1.2-1.0.0 through 4.1.8-1.0.0, installed into\n Apache Cassandra version 4.x, are susceptible to a vulnerability which \nwhen successfully exploited could allow authenticated Cassandra users to\n remotely bypass RBAC and escalate their privileges.","status":"published","published":"2025-02-13T15:44:06.315Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:07.901826975Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-863"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:47.386092Z"},{"id":"GHSA-mrqp-q7vx-v2cx","title":"Instaclustr Cassandra-Lucene-Index allows bypass of Cassandra RBAC","description":"**Summary / Details**\nSystems running the Instaclustr fork of Stratio's Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin versions 4.0-rc1-1.0.0 through 4.0.16-1.0.0 and 4.1.0-1.0.0 through 4.1.8-1.0.0, installed into Apache Cassandra version 4.x, are susceptible to a vulnerability which when successfully exploited could allow authenticated Cassandra users to remotely bypass RBAC to access data and and escalate their privileges. \n\n**Affected Versions**\n-\tCassandra-Lucene-Index plugin versions 4.0-rc1-1.0.0 through 4.0.16-1.0.0 \n-\tversions 4.1.0-1.0.0 through 4.1.8-1.0.0\nwhen installed into Apache Cassandra version 4.x.\n\n**Required Configuration for Exploit**\nThese are the conditions required to enable exploit:\n1. Cassandra 4.x\n2. Vulnerable version of the Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin configured for use\n3. Data added to tables\n4. Lucene index created\n5. Cassandra flush has run\n\n**Mitigation/Prevention**\nMitigation requires dropping all Lucene indexes and stopping use of the plugin. Exploit will be possible any time the required conditions are met.\n\n**Solution**\nUpgrade to a fixed version of the Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin.  \nReview users in Cassandra to validate all superuser privileges.","status":"published","published":"2025-02-13T17:16:27Z","modified":"2026-02-03T03:09:14.054754Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-288","CWE-863"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:52.170928Z"}]}}