CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-9152

CriticalCVSS 9.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.71%

53th percentile - higher than 53% of all known CVEs

Summary

WSO2 API Manager has an improper privilege management vulnerability due to missing authentication and authorization checks in the keymanager-operations Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) endpoint. A malicious user can exploit this to generate access tokens with elevated privileges, potentially leading to administrative access.

Risk Assessment

The ability to generate elevated-privilege tokens risks administrative takeover of the API Manager and execution of unauthorized operations.

Recommendation

Apply vendor-provided patches and verify and restrict access to the keymanager-operations DCR endpoint.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS