CVE-2026-32588: medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Cassandra
Apache Cassandra: Authenticated DoS via ALTER ROLE Password Hashing
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.6%
Authenticated DoS over CQL in Apache Cassandra 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 allows authenticated user to raise query latencies via repeated password changes.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.20, 4.1.11, 5.0.7, which fixes this issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache CassandraRelated CVEs — Apache Cassandra
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2021-44521—Remote code execution for scripted UDFsEPSS 58.9%CVE-2018-8016—CVE-2018-8016EPSS 2.3%CVE-2025-24860MEDIUMApache Cassandra: CassandraNetworkAuthorizer and CassandraCIDRAuthorizer can be bypassed allowing access to different network regionsEPSS 1.1%CVE-2025-23015HIGHApache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actionsEPSS 1.0%CVE-2025-26467HIGHApache Cassandra: User with MODIFY permission on ALL KEYSPACES can escalate privileges to superuser via unsafe actions (4.0.16 only)EPSS 0.5%CVE-2023-30601HIGHApache Cassandra: Privilege escalation when enabling FQL/Audit logsEPSS 0.3%