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GHSA-5W6W-G3G3-9QJV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-16 15:30 – Updated: 2025-10-16 15:30

Details

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)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2025-9152 (GCVE-0-2025-9152)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-16 12:37 – Updated: 2025-10-17 16:00

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)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Assigner

WSO2

References

URL

Tags

https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security…

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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)

WSO2

WSO2 API Control Plane

Affected: 4.5.0 , < 4.5.0.20 (custom)

Credits

crnković

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
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Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-5W6W-G3G3-9QJV

CVE-2025-9152 (GCVE-0-2025-9152)

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