Policy resource matcher in Apache Ranger before 0.7.1 ignores characters after '*' wildcard character - like my*test, test*.txt. This can…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.2% · top 9.0% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.

Weakness

• Authorization
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation · Apache Ranger

  • affected 0.5.x
  • affected 0.6.x
  • affected 0.7.0

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.apache.ranger:rangerGHSA-758m-6g3q-g3hh (opens in a new tab)

References (2)

• https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Ranger (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 98958 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-758m-6g3q-g3hh (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 16:12 UTC.