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CVE-2016-0733
The Admin UI in Apache Ranger before 0.5.1 does not properly handle authentication requests that lack a password, which allows remote…
Critical9.8EPSS 3.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.ranger:rangerGHSA-j84c-j8qm-g47r (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- 82871 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [ranger-dev] 20160205 CVE update (CVE-2015-5167 & CVE-2016-0733) - Fixed in Ranger 0.5.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-835 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Ranger (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j84c-j8qm-g47r (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .