About “Apache Cassandra”

A curated feed of “Apache Cassandra”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 22 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 9 were published. Average CVSS is 7.9 (all time; 8.1 over 365d), and 77% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-267 - Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions, CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection'), CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a LOW impact class. Vendor advisories and release notes are key. Verify compatibility matrices, prefer supported long term versions, and stage rollouts with monitoring. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

Support & lifecycle: apache-cassandra

This table shows recent release cycles and their projected end-of-life. Data source: endoflife.date.

CycleReleaseLatestEOLLTS
5.05.0.8-
4.14.1.11-
4.04.0.20-
3.113.11.19 Expired
3.03.0.32 Expired

Maintained Soon (≤ 180 days) Expired

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CVSS ≥ 0.0
2026-05-07
Critical

CVE-2026-33844

Improper access control in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra allows an authorized attacker to execute code over a network.

Critical

CVE-2026-33109

Improper access control in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra allows an authorized attacker to execute code over a network.

2026-04-07
Medium

CVE-2026-32588

Authenticated DoS over CQL in Apache Cassandra 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 allows authenticated user to raise query latencies via repeated password changes. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.20, 4.1.…

Medium

CVE-2026-27315

Sensitive Information Leak in cqlsh in Apache Cassandra 4.0 allows access to sensitive information, like passwords, from previously executed cqlsh command via  ~/.cassandra/cqlsh_history local file a…

High

CVE-2026-27314

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 arbitrar…

2026-01-27
High

CVE-2020-36939

Cassandra Web 0.5.0 contains a directory traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by manipulating path traversal parameters. Attackers can exploit the dis…

2025-11-19
High

CVE-2025-10703

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in Progress DataDirect Connect for JDBC drivers, Progress DataDirect Open Access JDBC driver and Hybrid Data Pipeline allows Re…

High

CVE-2025-10702

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in Progress DataDirect Connect for JDBC drivers, Progress DataDirect Open Access JDBC driver and Hybrid Data Pipeline allows Re…

2025-08-25
High

CVE-2025-26467

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 u…

2025-02-13
High

CVE-2025-26511

Systems 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 4.1.2-1.0.0 through 4.1.8-1.0.0, installed into Apache Cassandra ver…

2025-02-04
Medium

CVE-2025-24860

Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Apache Cassandra allowing users to access a datacenter or IP/CIDR groups they should not be able to when using CassandraNetworkAuthorizer or CassandraCIDRAuth…

Medium

CVE-2024-27137

In Apache Cassandra it is possible for a local attacker without access to the Apache Cassandra process or configuration files to manipulate the RMI registry to perform a man-in-the-middle attack an…

High

CVE-2025-23015

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 u…

2024-08-20
Critical

CVE-2024-38175

An improper access control vulnerability in the Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra allows an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

2023-09-27
High

CVE-2023-33972

Scylladb is a NoSQL data store using the seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra. Authenticated users who are authorized to create tables in a keyspace can escalate their privileges to ac…

2023-05-30
High

CVE-2023-30601

Privilege escalation when enabling FQL/Audit logs allows user with JMX access to run arbitrary commands as the user running Apache Cassandra This issue affects Apache Cassandra: from 4.0.0 through 4.…

2022-09-15
High

CVE-2022-29240

Scylla is a real-time big data database that is API-compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. When decompressing CQL frame received from user, Scylla assumes that user-provided uncompress…

2022-02-11
Critical

CVE-2021-44521

When running Apache Cassandra with the following configuration: enable_user_defined_functions: true enable_scripted_user_defined_functions: true enable_user_defined_functions_threads: false it is pos…

2021-02-03
High

CVE-2020-17516

Apache Cassandra versions 2.1.0 to 2.1.22, 2.2.0 to 2.2.19, 3.0.0 to 3.0.23, and 3.11.0 to 3.11.9, when using 'dc' or 'rack' internode_encryption setting, allows both encrypted and unencrypted intern…

2020-09-01
Medium

CVE-2020-13946

In Apache Cassandra, all versions prior to 2.1.22, 2.2.18, 3.0.22, 3.11.8 and 4.0-beta2, it is possible for a local attacker without access to the Apache Cassandra process or configuration files to m…

2018-06-28
Critical

CVE-2018-8016

The default configuration in Apache Cassandra 3.8 through 3.11.1 binds an unauthenticated JMX/RMI interface to all network interfaces, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code via…

2015-04-03
High

CVE-2015-0225

The default configuration in Apache Cassandra 1.2.0 through 1.2.19, 2.0.0 through 2.0.13, and 2.1.0 through 2.1.3 binds an unauthenticated JMX/RMI interface to all network interfaces, which allows re…

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