VulnerabilityAwaiting Analysis

CVE-2026-47846

Bitnami Cassandra container images are affected by a retained default superuser vulnerability.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 0.48%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.48%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

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.

CVSS 3.1: 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.48% probability · 40th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-798
Source: security@vmware.com

References

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

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.