CVE-2015-0265

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Policy Admin Tool in Apache Ranger before 0.5.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the HTTP User-Agent header.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Ranger: through 0.4.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76208
http://www.slideshare.net/wojdwo/big-problems-with-big-data-hadoop-interfaces-security
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Ranger
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ranger-dev/201508.mbox/%3CD1E7EC30.9D53F%25vel%40apache.org%3E
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76208
http://www.slideshare.net/wojdwo/big-problems-with-big-data-hadoop-interfaces-security
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Ranger
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ranger-dev/201508.mbox/%3CD1E7EC30.9D53F%25vel%40apache.org%3E

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