Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Apache Ranger's Policy Admin Tool
CVE-2015-0265

6.1MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor: Apache
Status: Ranger
Vendor: CVE Published:; 11 April 2016

What is CVE-2015-0265?

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Policy Admin Tool of Apache Ranger before version 0.5.0. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to craft malicious HTTP requests with a specially constructed User-Agent header. By exploiting this security flaw, attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML, which may lead to unauthorized actions, data exfiltration, or the compromise of user sessions. Monitoring and patching is critical to safeguard your systems against such vulnerabilities.

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