Incorrect Authorization in Multiple WSO2 Products via Account Recovery SOAP Admin Service Leading to Account Takeover

Description

An incorrect authorization vulnerability exists in multiple WSO2 products due to a business logic flaw in the account recovery-related SOAP admin service. A malicious actor can exploit this vulnerability to reset the password of any user account, leading to a complete account takeover, including accounts with elevated privileges. This vulnerability is exploitable only through the account recovery SOAP admin services exposed via the "/services" context path in affected products. The impact may be reduced if access to these endpoints has been restricted based on the "Security Guidelines for Production Deployment" by disabling exposure to untrusted networks.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.75% · top 45% of all CVEs (7 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.

Weakness

• CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-863 and its CVEs

Affected products

• WSO2 · WSO2 API Manager

  • unknown < 2.2.0
  • affected 2.2.0 – < 2.2.0.55
  • affected 2.5.0 – < 2.5.0.82
  • affected 2.6.0 – < 2.6.0.141
  • affected 3.0.0 – < 3.0.0.161
  • affected 3.1.0 – < 3.1.0.292
  • affected 3.2.0 – < 3.2.0.382
  • affected 3.2.1 – < 3.2.1.14
  • affected 4.0.0 – < 4.0.0.304
  • affected 4.1.0 – < 4.1.0.164
  • affected 4.2.0 – < 4.2.0.99
  • affected 4.3.0 – < 4.3.0.15

• WSO2 · WSO2 Governance Registry

  • affected 5.4.0 – < 5.4.0.14

• WSO2 · WSO2 Identity Server

  • unknown < 5.3.0
  • affected 5.3.0 – < 5.3.0.31
  • affected 5.4.0 – < 5.4.0.30
  • affected 5.4.1 – < 5.4.1.35
  • affected 5.5.0 – < 5.5.0.48
  • affected 5.6.0 – < 5.6.0.56
  • affected 5.7.0 – < 5.7.0.122
  • affected 5.8.0 – < 5.8.0.104
  • affected 5.9.0 – < 5.9.0.155
  • affected 5.10.0 – < 5.10.0.317
  • affected 5.11.0 – < 5.11.0.363
  • affected 6.0.0 – < 6.0.0.207
  • affected 6.1.0 – < 6.1.0.184
  • affected 7.0.0 – < 7.0.0.56

• WSO2 · WSO2 Identity Server as Key Manager

  • unknown < 5.3.0
  • affected 5.3.0 – < 5.3.0.36
  • affected 5.5.0 – < 5.5.0.49
  • affected 5.6.0 – < 5.6.0.70
  • affected 5.7.0 – < 5.7.0.121
  • affected 5.9.0 – < 5.9.0.162
  • affected 5.10.0 – < 5.10.0.311

• WSO2 · WSO2 IoT

  • affected 3.3.0 – < 3.3.0.59
  • affected 3.3.1 – < 3.3.1.61

• WSO2 · WSO2 Open Banking AM

  • unknown < 1.3.0
  • affected 1.3.0 – < 1.3.0.130
  • affected 1.4.0 – < 1.4.0.133
  • affected 1.5.0 – < 1.5.0.135
  • affected 2.0.0 – < 2.0.0.341

• WSO2 · WSO2 Open banking KM

  • unknown < 1.3.0
  • affected 1.3.0 – < 1.3.0.113
  • affected 1.4.0 – < 1.4.0.129
  • affected 1.5.0 – < 1.5.0.119

• WSO2 · WSO2 Open Banking IAM

  • affected 2.0.0 – < 2.0.0.362

• WSO2 · WSO2 Carbon Identity Management

  • affected 5.7.5 – < 5.7.5.9
  • affected 5.10.86 – < 5.10.86.4
  • affected 5.10.112 – < 5.10.112.14
  • affected 5.11.148 – < 5.11.148.13
  • affected 5.11.256 – < 5.11.256.15
  • affected 5.12.153 – < 5.12.153.58
  • affected 5.12.387 – < 5.12.387.41
  • affected 5.14.97 – < 5.14.97.75
  • affected 5.17.5 – < 5.17.5.282
  • affected 5.17.118 – < 5.17.118.4
  • affected 5.18.187 – < 5.18.187.265
  • affected 5.18.248 – < 5.18.248.14
  • affected 5.23.8 – < 5.23.8.184
  • affected 5.24.8 – < 5.24.8.6
  • affected 5.25.92 – < 5.25.92.92
  • affected 5.25.705 – < 5.25.705.6
  • affected 7.0.78 – < 7.0.78.32
  • unaffected 7.3.44 – ≤ *

What to do

Solution: Follow the instructions given on https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2024/WSO2-2024-3561/#solution https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2024/WSO2-2024-3561/#solution

References (2)

• https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2024/WSO2-2024-3561/ (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
• https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-guidelines/security-guidelines-for-production-deployment/ (opens in a new tab)related

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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 27 Aug 2025, 21:34 UTC.