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Publication date: 2025-10-16

Last updated on: 2025-10-21

Assigner: WSO2 LLC

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.

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Meta Information

Published

2025-10-16

Last Modified

2025-10-21

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-10-16

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-9152

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
wso2	api_control_plane	4.5.0
wso2	api_manager	3.2.0
wso2	api_manager	3.2.1
wso2	api_manager	4.0.0
wso2	api_manager	4.1.0
wso2	api_manager	4.2.0
wso2	api_manager	4.3.0
wso2	api_manager	4.4.0
wso2	api_manager	4.5.0

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-306	The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is an improper privilege management issue in WSO2 API Manager caused by missing authentication and authorization checks in the keymanager-operations Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) endpoint. It allows a malicious user to generate access tokens with elevated privileges.

Impact Analysis

A malicious user exploiting this vulnerability can gain administrative access and perform unauthorized operations, potentially compromising the security and integrity of the system.

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