CVE-2016-8746 (GCVE-0-2016-8746)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-14 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:34
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Summary
Apache Ranger before 0.6.3 policy engine incorrectly matches paths in certain conditions when policy does not contain wildcards and has recursion flag set to true.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2017-02-01 00:00
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