CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-0733
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
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.
Affected configurations
• apache ranger (<= 0.5.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82871 www.securityfocus.com
- https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Ranger Vendor Advisory
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-835 Vendor Advisory
- https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ranger-dev/201602.mbox/%3CD2D9A4C5.114ECA%25vel%40apache.org%3E mail-archives.apache.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82871 www.securityfocus.com
- https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Ranger Vendor Advisory
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-835 Vendor Advisory
- https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ranger-dev/201602.mbox/%3CD2D9A4C5.114ECA%25vel%40apache.org%3E mail-archives.apache.org