Security advisory

{
  "id": "5c0ded349c3925f43057bcc6de2fd09c27486ae2e915447b9719b744d9bebdf2",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8746",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-8746",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-8746",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-8746",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-8746",
        "GHSA-xv7x-x6wr-xx7g"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/ranger",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "167a382b4d86d4aaee44f1877a6aea36784221ca"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:ranger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.6.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "ranger-0.6.2-rc1",
            "ranger-0.6.2",
            "ranger-0.6.1-rc2",
            "ranger-0.6.1-rc1",
            "ranger-0.6.0-rc1",
            "ranger-0.4.0-rc0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8746.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:43.940865316Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Ranger"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-8746",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 435746,
  "published_at": "2017-06-14T17:29:00.187+00:00"
}