CVE-2016-5395: Apache Ranger

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Ranger: up to and including 0.5.0; version 0.5.1 only; version 0.5.2 only; version 0.5.3 only; version 0.6.0 only

Published 2016-09-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.