CVE-2016-5395

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the create user functionality in the policy admin tool in Apache Ranger before 0.6.1 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to policies.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Ranger: through 0.5.0; 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.6.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92577
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Ranger
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92577
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Ranger

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