CVE-2025-9152

Improper Privilege Management in Multiple WSO2 API Manager via keymanager-operations DCR Endpoint

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Oct 16, 2025
Updated: Oct 17, 2025
Reserved: Aug 19, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	WSO2

Weaknesses

CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WSO2 API ManagerWSO2	before 3.2.0Unknown 3.2.0 to before 3.2.0.437Affected 3.2.1 to before 3.2.1.57Affected 4.0.0 to before 4.0.0.357Affected 4.1.0 to before 4.1.0.221Affected 4.2.0 to before 4.2.0.159Affected 4.3.0 to before 4.3.0.72Affected 4.4.0 to before 4.4.0.35Affected 4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.19Affected
WSO2 API Control PlaneWSO2	4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.20Affected

References

https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2025/WSO2-2025-4483/vendor-advisory

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