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Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-47846

CVE-2026-47846

Bitnami bitnami/cassandra — Bitnami Cassandra container images are affected by a retained default superuser vulnerability.

EPSS 0.5%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
38
CVSS 9.8 (CNA)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 41.6.416 × 208.3No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
bitnami/cassandra4.0.0 – < 4.0.20-photon-5-r74.0.20-photon-5-r7CNA
bitnami/cassandra4.1.0 – < 4.1.11-photon-5-r74.1.11-photon-5-r7CNA
bitnami/cassandra5.0.0 – < 5.0.8-photon-5-r45.0.8-photon-5-r4CNA

Scores by source

vmware (CNA)9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/bitnami/containers/security/advisories/GHSA-8q3j-37vg-8fc2