CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-9804

Improper Access Control

Published: Oct 16, 2025 | Modified: Nov 21, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An improper access control vulnerability exists in multiple WSO2 products due to insufficient permission enforcement in certain internal SOAP Admin Services and System REST APIs. A low-privileged user may exploit this flaw to perform unauthorized operations, including accessing server-level information.

This vulnerability affects only internal administrative interfaces. APIs exposed through the WSO2 API Managers API Gateway remain unaffected.

Weakness

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Api_control_plane Wso2 4.5.0 (including) 4.5.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 2.1.0 (including) 2.1.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 2.2.0 (including) 2.2.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 2.5.0 (including) 2.5.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 2.6.0 (including) 2.6.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 3.0.0 (including) 3.0.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 3.1.0 (including) 3.1.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 3.2.0 (including) 3.2.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 3.2.1 (including) 3.2.1 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 4.0.0 (including) 4.0.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 4.1.0 (including) 4.1.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 4.2.0 (including) 4.2.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 4.3.0 (including) 4.3.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 4.4.0 (including) 4.4.0 (including)
Api_manager Wso2 4.5.0 (including) 4.5.0 (including)
Api_manager_analytics Wso2 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.0 (including)
Api_manager_analytics Wso2 2.1.0 (including) 2.1.0 (including)
Api_manager_analytics Wso2 2.2.0 (including) 2.2.0 (including)
Api_manager_analytics Wso2 2.5.0 (including) 2.5.0 (including)
Data_analytics_server Wso2 3.1.0 (including) 3.1.0 (including)
Data_analytics_server Wso2 3.2.0 (including) 3.2.0 (including)
Enterprise_integrator Wso2 6.2.0 (including) 6.2.0 (including)
Enterprise_integrator Wso2 6.3.0 (including) 6.3.0 (including)
Enterprise_mobility_manager Wso2 2.2.0 (including) 2.2.0 (including)
Enterprise_service_bus Wso2 5.0.0 (including) 5.0.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 5.2.0 (including) 5.2.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 5.3.0 (including) 5.3.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 5.4.0 (including) 5.4.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 5.4.1 (including) 5.4.1 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 5.5.0 (including) 5.5.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 5.6.0 (including) 5.6.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 5.7.0 (including) 5.7.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 5.8.0 (including) 5.8.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 5.9.0 (including) 5.9.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 5.10.0 (including) 5.10.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 5.11.0 (including) 5.11.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 6.0.0 (including) 6.0.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 6.1.0 (including) 6.1.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 7.0.0 (including) 7.0.0 (including)
Identity_server Wso2 7.1.0 (including) 7.1.0 (including)
Identity_server_analytics Wso2 5.2.0 (including) 5.2.0 (including)
Identity_server_analytics Wso2 5.3.0 (including) 5.3.0 (including)
Identity_server_analytics Wso2 5.5.0 (including) 5.5.0 (including)
Identity_server_analytics Wso2 5.6.0 (including) 5.6.0 (including)
Identity_server_as_key_manager Wso2 5.3.0 (including) 5.3.0 (including)
Identity_server_as_key_manager Wso2 5.5.0 (including) 5.5.0 (including)
Identity_server_as_key_manager Wso2 5.6.0 (including) 5.6.0 (including)
Identity_server_as_key_manager Wso2 5.7.0 (including) 5.7.0 (including)
Identity_server_as_key_manager Wso2 5.9.0 (including) 5.9.0 (including)
Identity_server_as_key_manager Wso2 5.10.0 (including) 5.10.0 (including)
Open_banking_am Wso2 1.4.0 (including) 1.4.0 (including)
Open_banking_am Wso2 1.5.0 (including) 1.5.0 (including)
Open_banking_am Wso2 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.0 (including)
Open_banking_iam Wso2 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.0 (including)
Open_banking_km Wso2 1.4.0 (including) 1.4.0 (including)
Open_banking_km Wso2 1.5.0 (including) 1.5.0 (including)
Traffic_manager Wso2 4.5.0 (including) 4.5.0 (including)
Universal_gateway Wso2 4.5.0 (including) 4.5.0 (including)

Extended Description

Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:

When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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