Critical [CVE-2026-47846] Bitnami Cassandra container images are affected by a retained default superuser vulnerability.
This critical-severity VMware (Broadcom) advisory covers CVE-2026-47846.
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Summary
Bitnami Cassandra container images are affected by a retained default superuser vulnerability. When a custom administrator account is configured via the CASSANDRA_USER environment variable, the container initialization script creates the new superuser account but fails to drop the built-in cassandra account in certain scenarios.
This leaves the default cassandra:cassandra superuser active as an unintended access path. Affected versions — Container image: 4.0.x prior to 4.0.20-photon-5-r7; 4.1.x prior to 4.1.11-photon-5-r7; 5.0.x prior to 5.0.8-photon-5-r4 / 5.0.8-debian-12-r3.
- 4.0.x
- 4.1.x
- 5.0.x
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- 4.0.20
- 4.1.11
- 5.0.8
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 5.0.8. 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.
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