CVE-2026-27314

CVE-2026-27314: Apache Cassandra: Privilege escalation via ADD IDENTITY authorization bypass

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Cassandra
Weakness CWE-267
Published April 7, 2026
Last update April 8, 2026

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What the vulnerability does

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.

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Disclosure timeline

April 7, 2026 CVE published
April 8, 2026 Record updated