CVE-2025-9152 (GCVE-0-2025-9152)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-16 12:37 – Updated: 2025-10-17 16:00
VLAI?
Summary
An improper privilege management vulnerability exists in WSO2 API Manager due to missing authentication and authorization checks in the keymanager-operations Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) endpoint.
A malicious user can exploit this flaw to generate access tokens with elevated privileges, potentially leading to administrative access and the ability to perform unauthorized operations.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Assigner
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Impacted products
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| WSO2 | WSO2 API Manager |
Unknown:
0 , < 3.2.0
(custom)
Affected: 3.2.0 , < 3.2.0.437 (custom) Affected: 3.2.1 , < 3.2.1.57 (custom) Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.0.357 (custom) Affected: 4.1.0 , < 4.1.0.221 (custom) Affected: 4.2.0 , < 4.2.0.159 (custom) Affected: 4.3.0 , < 4.3.0.72 (custom) Affected: 4.4.0 , < 4.4.0.35 (custom) Affected: 4.5.0 , < 4.5.0.19 (custom) |
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