A full white paper was released this week on a recently fixed a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Cassandra, a distributed NoSQL database that offers high scalability very popular with companies like Cisco, Netflix, Reddit, Twitter, Urban Airship, OpenX, and more. Tracked as CVE-2021-44521, the vulnerability only affects non-default database configurations, which […]
Researchers have revealed details of a now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in Apache Cassandra that, if left unaddressed, could be abused to gain remote code execution (RCE) on affected installations. “This Apache security vulnerability is easy to exploit and has the potential to wreak havoc on systems, but luckily only manifests in non-default configurations of Cassandra,” […]
An unknown hacker is accessing public and unsecured Apache Cassandra databases and adding an extra table through which it warns server owners that their DB was left exposed to online attacks. The first cases of Cassandra databases with this extra table were spotted by a Twitter user that goes by the nickname of DunningKrugerEffect. The […]
Short Bytes: DB-Engines is one of the most respected sources of database rankings. Over the past years, the website has listed the database management systems based on its unique ranking system and provided a good idea of industry trends. In this year’s rankings, Oracle’s database management system has emerged as the DBMS of the year […]