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CVE-2026-47846

Bitnami Cassandra container images are affected by a retained default superuser vulnerability. When a custom administrator account is…

Critical9.8EPSS 0.48%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
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.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By vmware

  2. · 29 days later

    Published

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2026-47846, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
vmwareCNA (assigner)3.1Critical9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis3.1Critical9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.48% · top 58% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Bitnami · bitnami/cassandra

    • affected 4.0.0 – < 4.0.20-photon-5-r7
    • affected 4.1.0 – < 4.1.11-photon-5-r7
    • affected 5.0.0 – < 5.0.8-photon-5-r4

References (1)

Sources

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