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CVE-2016-6815
In Apache Ranger before 0.6.2, users with "keyadmin" role should not be allowed to change password for users with "admin" role.
Medium6.5EPSS 2.1%
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- Updated
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- apache
Description
In Apache Ranger before 0.6.2, users with "keyadmin" role should not be allowed to change password for users with "admin" role.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Incorrect Privileges
- CWE-255 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-255 and its CVEs
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Ranger
- affected 0.5.x
- affected 0.6.0
- affected 0.6.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.ranger:rangerGHSA-vhxc-8jjq-859j (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- 94221 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-vhxc-8jjq-859j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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