Medium severity · published Apr 11, 2016
CVE-2015-0265
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…
6.1
CVSS
4.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.9% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
Ranger · Apache
through 0.4.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0265
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0265
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76208
Exploit
http://www.slideshare.net/wojdwo/big-problems-with-big-data-hadoop-interfaces-security
Vendor Advisory
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Ranger
mail-archives.apache.org
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ranger-dev/201508.mbox/%3CD1E7EC30.9D53F%25vel%40apache.org%3E
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