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CVE-2016-6815

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-6815 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Apache Ranger versions prior to 0.6.2, where users with the "keyadmin" role could illicitly change passwords for "admin" role users. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and requires only low privileges, allowing an attacker to impact the integrity of user accounts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:ranger:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:ranger:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:ranger:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:ranger:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:ranger:0.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0207 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.ranger:rangerFixed in: 0.6.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-vhxc-8jjq-859jmedium

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.ranger:ranger

Oct 17, 2018

References

cwiki.apache.org / confluence/display/RANGER/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Ranger
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94221
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry