Cassandra-Lucene-Index allows bypass of Cassandra RBAC

published 2025-02-13 20 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-mrqp-q7vx-v2cx , EUVD-2025-4205

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 47%
public exploits: 0; none known

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 version 4.x, are susceptible to a vulnerability which when successfully exploited could allow authenticated Cassandra users to remotely bypass RBAC and escalate their privileges.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 2

maven com.instaclustr:cassandra-lucene-index-plugin 4.0.17-1.0.0, 4.1.8-1.0.1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 20 mo ago (2025-02-13)

Exploit prediction

0.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	com.instaclustr:cassandra-lucene-index-plugin	>=4.0-rc1-1.0.0, <4.0.17-1.0.0 >=4.1.0-1.0.0, <4.1.8-1.0.1	4.0.17-1.0.0 4.1.8-1.0.1

Affected products

NetApp Instaclustr fork of Stratio's Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin

Classification

Weakness

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary