CVE-2023-33972: Scylladb

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Scylladb Scylladb: up to and including 5.2.8

Published 2023-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.