CVE-2024-27137 (GCVE-0-2024-27137)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-04 10:19 – Updated: 2025-02-15 00:10
VLAI
Title
Apache Cassandra: unrestricted deserialization of JMX authentication credentials
Summary
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Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-06 19:45 UTC
CWE
  • Unrestricted deserialization of JMX authentication credentials
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1276 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Cassandra Affected: 4.0.2 , < 4.0.15 (semver)
Affected: 4.1.0 , < 4.1.8 (semver)
Affected: 5.0-beta1 , < 5.0.3 (semver)
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