CVE-2025-9152
Improper Privilege Management in Multiple WSO2 API Manager via keymanager-operations DCR Endpoint
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 0.71%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 46% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By WSO2
- 58 days later
· 58 days later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WSO2CNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.71% · top 46% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
- unknown < 3.2.0
- affected 3.2.0 – < 3.2.0.437
- affected 3.2.1 – < 3.2.1.57
- affected 4.0.0 – < 4.0.0.357
- affected 4.1.0 – < 4.1.0.221
- affected 4.2.0 – < 4.2.0.159
- affected 4.3.0 – < 4.3.0.72
- affected 4.4.0 – < 4.4.0.35
- affected 4.5.0 – < 4.5.0.19
- affected 4.5.0 – < 4.5.0.20
What to do
Solution: Follow the instructions given on https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2025/WSO2-2025-4483/#solution https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2025/WSO2-2025-4483/#solution
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-34755 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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