GHSA-mrqp-q7vx-v2cx: com.instaclustr:cassandra-lucene-index-plugin (CVE-2025-26511)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
com.instaclustr:cassandra-lucene-index-plugin	Maven	>=4.0-rc1-1.0.0, <4.0.17-1.0.0 \|\| >=4.1.0-1.0.0, <4.1.8-1.0.1	4.0.17-1.0.0, 4.1.8-1.0.1

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

The Maven package com.instaclustr:cassandra-lucene-index-plugin, an Instaclustr fork of Stratio's Cassandra-Lucene-Index plugin, is affected from 4.0-rc1-1.0.0 up to 4.0.17-1.0.0 (excluding it) and from 4.1.0-1.0.0 up to 4.1.8-1.0.1 (excluding it) when installed into Apache Cassandra 4.x. An authenticated Cassandra user could remotely bypass RBAC to access data and escalate privileges, once a Lucene index exists on a table with flushed data. Upgrade to 4.0.17-1.0.0 or 4.1.8-1.0.1; the source notes that dropping Lucene indexes and stopping plugin use is the only mitigation.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (netapp)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0057, the 48th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 15:09 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 15:09 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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