Vulnerability · Published Jun 18, 2026 · Assigned by vmware
CVE-2026-47846
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity hard-coded credentials in bitnami/cassandra from Bitnami. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 42% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Bitnami | bitnami/cassandra | 4.0.0 – before 4.0.20-photon-5-r74.1.0 – before 4.1.11-photon-5-r75.0.0 – before 5.0.8-photon-5-r4 |
Weakness: CWE-798 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H