CVE-2023-6837
Incorrect Authorization in Multiple WSO2 Products via Federated Authentication with JIT Provisioning Leading to User Impersonation
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- WSO2
Description
Multiple WSO2 products have been identified as vulnerable to perform user impersonatoin using JIT provisioning. In order for this vulnerability to have any impact on your deployment, following conditions must be met: * An IDP configured for federated authentication and JIT provisioning enabled with the "Prompt for username, password and consent" option. * A service provider that uses the above IDP for federated authentication and has the "Assert identity using mapped local subject identifier" flag enabled. Attacker should have: * A fresh valid user account in the federated IDP that has not been used earlier. * Knowledge of the username of a valid user in the local IDP. When all preconditions are met, a malicious actor could use JIT provisioning flow to perform user impersonation.
Timeline
ID reserved
By WSO2
Published
- 22 months later
· 22 months 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 | High8.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.46% · top 60% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- unknown < 2.5.0
- affected 2.5.0 – < 2.5.0.32
- affected 2.6.0 – < 2.6.0.52
- affected 3.0.0 – < 3.0.0.50
- affected 3.1.0 – < 3.1.0.72
- affected 3.2.0 – < 3.2.0.86
- affected 4.0.0 – < 4.0.0.35
- unknown < 5.6.0
- affected 5.6.0 – < 5.6.0.16
- affected 5.7.0 – < 5.7.0.35
- affected 5.8.0 – < 5.8.0.26
- affected 5.9.0 – < 5.9.0.38
- affected 5.10.0 – < 5.10.0.78
- affected 5.11.0 – < 5.11.0.69
WSO2 · WSO2 Identity Server as Key Manager
- unknown < 5.6.0
- affected 5.6.0 – < 5.6.0.17
- affected 5.7.0 – < 5.7.0.39
- affected 5.9.0 – < 5.9.0.45
- affected 5.10.0 – < 5.10.0.80
WSO2 · WSO2 Carbon Identity Application Authentication Framework
- affected 5.11.256 – < 5.11.256.3
- affected 5.12.153 – < 5.12.153.21
- affected 5.12.387 – < 5.12.387.7
- affected 5.14.97 – < 5.14.97.22
- affected 5.17.5 – < 5.17.5.106
- affected 5.18.187 – < 5.18.187.76
- unaffected 5.20.254 – ≤ *
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.wso2.carbon.identity.framework:org.wso2.carbon.identity.application.authentication.frameworkGHSA-f6jm-9pr8-9c3w (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.wso2.identity.apps:authentication-portalGHSA-f6jm-9pr8-9c3w (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Follow the instructions given on https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2022/WSO2-2021-1... https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2022/WSO2-2021-1573/#solution
References (1)
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)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-f6jm-9pr8-9c3w (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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