CVE-2024-7478
Username Enumeration via External User Stores in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows User Account Discovery
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- WSO2
Description
When a WSO2 product is configured to use an external user store, the system fails to adequately obscure the existence or validity of usernames during authentication attempts. This oversight allows an attacker to repeatedly query the authentication mechanism with different username guesses, enabling the enumeration of valid usernames present in the external user store. The discovery of valid usernames can increase the risk of targeted brute-force attacks, social engineering, and information leakage. Attackers can leverage this information to craft more convincing phishing campaigns or other social engineering tactics to trick users into revealing sensitive data. The presence of username enumeration could also negatively impact an organization's reputation, leading to loss of customer trust, regulatory non-compliance, and potential legal and financial repercussions.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WSO2CNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | Medium5.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- unknown < 3.1.0
- affected 3.1.0 – < 3.1.0.310
- affected 3.2.0 – < 3.2.0.401
- affected 3.2.1 – < 3.2.1.26
- affected 4.0.0 – < 4.0.0.318
- affected 4.1.0 – < 4.1.0.180
- affected 4.2.0 – < 4.2.0.119
- affected 4.3.0 – < 4.3.0.30
WSO2 · WSO2 Identity Server as Key Manager
- unknown < 5.10.0
- affected 5.10.0 – < 5.10.0.320
- unknown < 5.10.0
- affected 5.10.0 – < 5.10.0.326
- affected 6.0.0 – < 6.0.0.214
- affected 6.1.0 – < 6.1.0.198
- affected 7.0.0 – < 7.0.0.67
- unknown < 2.0.0
- affected 2.0.0 – < 2.0.0.371
- unknown < 2.0.0
- affected 2.0.0 – < 2.0.0.351
WSO2 · WSO2 Carborn Identity Handler
- affected 1.4.0 – < 1.4.0.15
- affected 1.4.0 – < 1.4.0.16
- affected 1.4.11 – < 1.4.11.14
- affected 1.4.37 – < 1.4.37.1
- affected 1.6.1 – < 1.6.1.5
- affected 1.7.1 – < 1.7.1.1
- affected 1.8.6 – < 1.8.6.5
- affected 1.8.14 – < 1.8.14.1
- affected 1.9.2 – < 1.9.2.4
What to do
Solution: Follow the instructions given on https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2024-3606/#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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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