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🛡️ CVE-2025-59059 — ranger

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-94 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache Ranger has a Code Injection vulnerability

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in NashornScriptEngineCreator is reported in Apache Ranger versions <= 2.7.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.8.0, which fixes this issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-59059 is classified as CWE-94: Code Injection. Input is incorporated into code that the runtime evaluates, so an attacker can have their own code executed.

Affected software

CVE-2025-59059 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.apache.ranger:ranger-plugins-common (fixed in 2.8.0)
  • ranger (fixed in 2.8.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 March 2026 and last revised on 9 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
lists.apache.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-94: Code Injection) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-94
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-03-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-09
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.ranger:ranger-plugins-common — 2.8.0
ranger — 2.8.0

Exploit Protection

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