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9042/9160 - Pentesting Cassandra
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Basic Information
Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable, high-performance distributed database designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. It is a type of NoSQL database.
In several cases you will find cassandra accepting any credentials (as there aren't any configured) and you will be able to enumerate the database.
Default port: 9042,9160
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PORT STATE SERVICE REASON
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9042/tcp open cassandra-native Apache Cassandra 3.10 or later (native protocol versions 3/v3, 4/v4, 5/v5-beta)
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9160/tcp open cassandra syn-ack
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Enumeration
Manual
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pip install cqlsh
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cqlsh <IP>
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#Basic info enumeration
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SELECT cluster_name, thrift_version, data_center, partitioner, native_protocol_version, rack, release_version from system.local;
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#Keyspace enumeration
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SELECT keyspace_name FROM system.schema_keyspaces;
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desc <Keyspace_name> #Decribe that DB
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desc system_auth #Describe the DB called system_auth
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SELECT * from system_auth.roles; #Retreive that info, can contain credential hashes
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SELECT * from logdb.user_auth; #Can contain credential hashes
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SELECT * from logdb.user;
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SELECT * from configuration."config";
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Automated
There aren't much options here and nmap doesn't obtain much info
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nmap -sV --script cassandra-info -p <PORT> <IP>
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Shodan
port:9160 Cluster
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