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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.8 Critical

CVE-2026-47846

Bitnami Cassandra container images are affected by a retained default superuser vulnerability. When a custom administrator account is configured via the CASSANDRA_USER environment

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
vmware

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Bitnami bitnami/cassandra

Default version status: unaffected

  • 4.0.0 to < 4.0.20-photon-5-r7affected
  • 4.1.0 to < 4.1.11-photon-5-r7affected
  • 5.0.0 to < 5.0.8-photon-5-r4affected

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