Vulnerability · Published Sep 27, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2023-33972Privilege escalation from having CREATE access on a keyspace in Scylladb

High 7.2

In plain English

A high-severity privilege mismanagement in scylladb from scylladb. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 51% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.2High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 49.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Scylladb is a NoSQL data store using the seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra. Authenticated users who are authorized to create tables in a keyspace can escalate their privileges to access a table in the same keyspace, even if they don't have permissions for that table. This issue has not yet been patched. A workaround to address this issue is to disable CREATE privileges on a keyspace, and create new tables on behalf of other users.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
scylladb	scylladb	<= 5.2.8

Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/security/advisories/GHSA-ww5v-p45p-3vhq x_refsource_CONFIRM