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CVE-2026-47846

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS 3.1
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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-47846
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
vmware
Reserved
2026-05-20 10:00 UTC
Published
2026-06-18 18:39 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-18 20:24 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-798
CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Vendor / Product
Bitnami / bitnami/cassandra
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Tech. Impact
total
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Bitnami bitnami/cassandra — 4.0.0 < 4.0.20-photon-5-r7, 4.1.0 < 4.1.11-photon-5-r7, 5.0.0 < 5.0.8-photon-5-r4
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-798 cna CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
9.8 CRITICAL 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References (1)
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