# 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 may find that Cassandra accepts **any credentials** (as there aren't any configured) and this could potentially allow an attacker to **enumerate** the database.
**Default port:** 9042,9160
```
PORT STATE SERVICE REASON
9042/tcp open cassandra-native Apache Cassandra 3.10 or later (native protocol versions 3/v3, 4/v4, 5/v5-beta)
9160/tcp open cassandra syn-ack
```
## Enumeration
### Manual
```bash
pip install cqlsh
cqlsh
#Basic info enumeration
SELECT cluster_name, thrift_version, data_center, partitioner, native_protocol_version, rack, release_version from system.local;
#Keyspace enumeration
SELECT keyspace_name FROM system.schema_keyspaces;
desc #Decribe that DB
desc system_auth #Describe the DB called system_auth
SELECT * from system_auth.roles; #Retreive that info, can contain credential hashes
SELECT * from logdb.user_auth; #Can contain credential hashes
SELECT * from logdb.user;
SELECT * from configuration."config";
```
### Automated
There aren't much options here and nmap doesn't obtain much info
```bash
nmap -sV --script cassandra-info -p
```
### [**Brute force**](../generic-methodologies-and-resources/brute-force.md#cassandra)
### **Shodan**
`port:9160 Cluster`\
`port:9042 "Invalid or unsupported protocol version"`
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