# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-26467"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-25T14:06:28.761Z"
updatedAt: "2026-02-26T17:48:12.624Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-26467"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-26467.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-26467"
title: "Apache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions (4.0.16 only)"
summary: "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 unsafe actions to a system resource. Operators granting data MODIFY permission on all keyspaces on affected versions should review data access rules for potential breaches.\n\n\n\nThis issue affects Apache Cassandra 3.0.30, 3.11.17, 4.0.16, 4.1.7, 5.0.2, but this advisory is only for 4.0.16 because the fix to CVE-2025-23015 was incorrectly applied to 4.0.16, so that version is still affected.\n\nUsers in the 4.0 series are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.17 which fixes the issue. Users from 3.0, 3.11, 4.1 and 5.0 series should follow recommendation from CVE-2025-23015."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4.0.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver"}],"vendor":"Apache Software Foundation","product":"Apache Cassandra","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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