Apache Ranger vulnerabilities

31 CVEs affecting Apache Ranger, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2026-65948, published 2026-08-10.

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CVE-2015-0265, published 2016-04-11. Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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.
CVE-2017-7676, published 2017-06-14. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Policy resource matcher in Apache Ranger before 0.7.1 ignores characters after '*' wildcard character - like my*test, test*.txt. This can result in unintended behavior.
CVE-2018-11778, published 2018-10-05. High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. UnixAuthenticationService in Apache Ranger 1.2.0 was updated to correctly handle user input to avoid Stack-based buffer overflow. Versions prior to 1.2.0 should be upgraded to 1.2.0
CVE-2016-0733, published 2016-04-12. 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…
CVE-2019-12397, published 2019-08-08. Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Policy import functionality in Apache Ranger 0.7.0 to 1.2.0 is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting issue. Upgrade to 2.0.0 or later version of Apache Ranger with the fix.
CVE-2016-8746, published 2017-06-14. Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Ranger before 0.6.3 policy engine incorrectly matches paths in certain conditions when policy does not contain wildcards and has recursion flag set to true.
CVE-2026-28672, published 2026-08-10. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection') vulnerability in Apache Ranger. This issue affects Apache Ranger: from 0.6 through 2.8.
CVE-2017-7677, published 2017-06-14. Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In environments that use external location for hive tables, Hive Authorizer in Apache Ranger before 0.7.1 should be checking RWX permission for create table.
CVE-2016-8751, published 2017-06-14. Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Ranger before 0.6.3 is vulnerable to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting in when entering custom policy conditions. Admin users can store some arbitrary javascript code to be executed when normal…
CVE-2016-5395, published 2016-09-26. 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…

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CVE-2026-65948, published 2026-08-10. High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. UnixAuth lacks brute-force protection in Apache Ranger versions <= 2.8.0. Note: UnixAuth is NOT a recommended option for production deployments. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.9.0,…
CVE-2026-65945, published 2026-08-10. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Logs contain replayable JWT tokens in Apache Ranger versions <= 2.8.0 Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.9.0, which fixes this issue.
CVE-2026-65942, published 2026-08-10. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. TLS hostname verification issue in Apache Ranger Client Code in versions <= 2.8.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.9.0, which fixes this issue.
CVE-2026-55814, published 2026-08-10. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Missing Authentication in Apache Ranger Download APIs on versions <= 2.8.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.9.0, which fixes this issue.
CVE-2026-55799, published 2026-08-10. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in GraalScriptEngineCreator in Apache Ranger <= 2.8.0 Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.9.0, which fixes this issue.
CVE-2026-44416, published 2026-08-10. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Remote Code Execution via Arbitrary Class Instantiation in plugin-schema-registry component in Apache Ranger <= 2.8.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.9.0, which fixes this issue.
CVE-2026-42537, published 2026-08-10. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Remote Code Execution via JDBC URL Injection in Apache Ranger <= 2.8.0 Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.9.0, which fixes this issue.
CVE-2026-40920, published 2026-08-10. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Privilege Escalation via URL Parameter is reported in Apache Ranger versions <= 2.8.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.9.0, which fixes this issue.
CVE-2026-32227, published 2026-08-10. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. SQL Injection vulnerability vulnerability in Apache Ranger. This issue affects . Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.9.0, which fixes the issue.