CVE-2026-47846_CVE-2026-47846

9.8 / 10

CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-47846

Source vmware

Published Jun 18, 2026 at 18:39

Modified Jun 18, 2026 at 20:24

Affected Product

Vendor Bitnami

Product bitnami/cassandra

Version 4.0.0

Affected Versions Bitnami bitnami/cassandra 4.0.0
Bitnami bitnami/cassandra 4.1.0
Bitnami bitnami/cassandra 5.0.0

CWE Classification

CWE-798

References

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

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