CVE-2016-0733: Apache Ranger

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Admin UI in Apache Ranger before 0.5.1 does not properly handle authentication requests that lack a password, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by leveraging knowledge of a valid username.

Affected products

• Apache Ranger: up to and including 0.5.0

Published 2016-04-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.