vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-44521

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 11, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

When running Apache Cassandra with the following configuration: enable_user_defined_functions: true enable_scripted_user_defined_functions: true enable_user_defined_functions_threads: false it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the host. The attacker would need to have enough permissions to create user defined functions in the cluster to be able to exploit this. Note that this configuration is documented as unsafe, and will continue to be considered unsafe after this CVE.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
NEW

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