Advisory record · GHSA-c87w-642h-m97h

Apache Ranger has a Code Injection vulnerability

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.014 · 72nd percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 3 Mar 2026, 12:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.apache.ranger:ranger-plugins-commonMaven<2.8.02.8.0
Identifiers
GHSA-c87w-642h-m97h · CVE-2025-59059
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-94
Published
3 Mar 2026
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Apache Ranger, in the org.apache.ranger:ranger-plugins-common Maven package, is affected in versions before 2.8.0. The source describes a remote code execution flaw in NashornScriptEngineCreator, but it gives few details on the attack conditions. Users should upgrade to version 2.8.0, which fixes the issue.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.014, the 72nd percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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