High [CVE-2026-27314] Privilege escalation in Apache Cassandra 5.0 on an mTLS environment using MutualTlsAuthenticator
This high-severity Apache Software Foundation advisory covers CVE-2026-27314 affecting Apache Cassandra.
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Summary
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.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 5.0.7. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
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