Evidence used
- No CISA KEV confirmation is currently recorded.
- EPSS is 0.41% for the current model date.
BlackTreeCVE IntelligenceFull vulnerability report · 2026
CVE-2025-14561High confidence
Access Control Bypass via Publisher REST APIs in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows Cross-Tenant Operations
WSO2 · WSO2 API Manager
9.0CriticalCVSS 3.1
Within 7 days
Patch availableCritical technical severity; prioritise exposed affected systems while verifying vendor guidance.
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Open reassessment dashboard →Operational reassessment
Published severity in operational context
Published severityCritical→Operational priority:Critical, unchanged from published severity.unchanged
Compensating controls
- Validate the affected product branch and deploy the verified fixed release.
- Restrict the affected network interface to trusted sources where business-safe.
- Monitor vendor guidance and exploitation sources for a material change.
Verification
- Confirm that the asset runs WSO2 WSO2 API Manager and falls inside the recorded affected range.
- Verify the installed build against the product-specific fixed version after deployment.
- Validate exposure, authentication requirements and compensating controls in the actual environment.
- Reopen this reassessment when CVSS, KEV, EPSS, exploit evidence or remediation changes.
Critical technical severity; prioritise exposed affected systems while verifying vendor guidance.
Patch available01
What, why and how
In multi-tenant deployments, the Publisher REST APIs fail to enforce tenant isolation correctly. This allows a user in one tenant, possessing sufficient privileges to invoke these APIs, to perform operations that impact other tenants. The vulnerability allows a privileged user to perform publisher operations such as exposing or modifying API Metadata in another tenant environment. This impact is only realized in multi-tenant deployments.
What
In multi-tenant deployments, the Publisher REST APIs fail to enforce tenant isolation correctly. This allows a user in one tenant, possessing sufficient privileges to invoke these APIs, to perform operations that impact other tenants. The vulnerability allows a privileged user to perform publisher operations such as exposing or modifying API Metadata in another tenant environment. This impact is only realized in multi-tenant deployments.
Why
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
How
An attacker operating through a network path may attempt exploitation with elevated privileges. If successful, the issue may cause the confidentiality, integrity or availability impact described by the vendor.
What
In multi-tenant deployments, the Publisher REST APIs fail to enforce tenant isolation correctly. This allows a user in one tenant, possessing sufficient privileges to invoke these APIs, to perform operations that impact other tenants. The vulnerability allows a privileged user to perform publisher operations such as exposing or modifying API Metadata in another tenant environment. This impact is only realized in multi-tenant deployments.
Why
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
How
An attacker operating through a network path may attempt exploitation with elevated privileges. If successful, the issue may cause the confidentiality, integrity or availability impact described by the vendor.
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Exploit reality and attack path
CVSS severity, EPSS forecast probability, public exploit material and CISA-confirmed exploitation are separate signals.
Observed exploitation No confirmed evidence
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Confirmed exploitation and public exploit material are separate signals. Attacks can occur without public proof-of-concept or exploit code.No CISA KEV match was present at the last successful refresh. This means no confirmation from that source, not proof of no exploitation.
Public PoC / exploit material None recorded
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Confirmed exploitation and public exploit material are separate signals. Attacks can occur without public proof-of-concept or exploit code.No exploit-tagged reference or CISA SSVC proof-of-concept state is currently recorded. Research may still exist outside the structured feeds.
- Likely attack path
- a network path → Improper Access Control → cause the confidentiality, integrity or availability impact described by the vendor
- Attack surface
- Network
- Privileges required
- High: elevated access is required
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low: no specialised conditions are recorded
- Security boundary
- Changed: exploitation can affect a different security authority
- Weakness
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CWE means Common Weakness Enumeration: a standard category for the underlying weakness. - CWE-284 ↗
CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
- CVSS vector
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CVSS means Common Vulnerability Scoring System. The vector records the metric values used to calculate technical severity. CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:LCommon Vulnerability Scoring System 3.1: the compact vector below is decoded into plain language.
AVNetworkAttack vector: The vulnerable component can be reached over a network.ACLowAttack complexity: No specialised conditions are required beyond attacker-controlled input.PRHighPrivileges required: The attacker needs elevated or administrative privileges.UINoneUser interaction: No action by another user is required.SChangedScope: The attack can affect a component governed by a different security authority.CHighConfidentiality impact: A successful attack can cause a major loss.IHighIntegrity impact: A successful attack can cause a major loss.ALowAvailability impact: A successful attack can cause a limited loss.- Post-exploitation / living off the land
- No specific living-off-the-land technique is confirmed in the structured sources. Monitor normal administration tools for activity inconsistent with the affected service's baseline.
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Patch and workaround
Operational remediation based on structured source evidence.
- Status
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Patch availability is based on structured fixed-version fields and authoritative update references. If no fix is verified, check the vendor advisory before making a change. - Patch available
- Affected
- WSO2 API Manager: 4.1.0 < 4.1.0.242, 4.2.0 < 4.2.0.182, 4.3.0 < 4.3.0.93, 4.4.0 < 4.4.0.57, 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.41, 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.6
- WSO2 API Control Plane: 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.42, 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.7
- WSO2 Traffic Manager: 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.40, 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.6
- WSO2 Universal Gateway: 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.40, 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.6
- WSO2 Carbon API Management Implementation: 9.20.74 < 9.20.74.388, 9.28.116 < 9.28.116.395, 9.29.120 < 9.29.120.213, 9.30.67 < 9.30.67.135, 9.31.86 < 9.31.86.108, 9.32.147 < 9.32.147.5
- WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Utility: 9.20.74 < 9.20.74.388, 9.28.116 < 9.28.116.395, 9.29.120 < 9.29.120.213, 9.30.67 < 9.30.67.135, 9.31.86 < 9.31.86.108, 9.32.147 < 9.32.147.5
- Fixed
- Action
- Review the linked authoritative reference and apply the recorded fixed release appropriate to the affected product branch.
- Workaround
- No verified workaround is recorded. If business-safe, reduce exposure to the affected interface and allow only trusted sources until authoritative guidance is available.
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Evidence and provenance
Published 6 Aug 2026 · Last source change 7 Aug 2026, 17:48 UTC · CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
CVE recordCVE.org · 5.2
CVSS sourceCNA
EPSS source FIRST · tracked since 2026-08-14
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The date BlackTree first stored a score for this CVE from the daily FIRST EPSS feed.European sourceENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-210647
Product sourceCNA
Remediation sourceCVE/CNA references
CWE sourceCNA
NVD statusNVD not scheduled
Core structured fields are present and their contributing authorities are shown above.
Material change intelligence
View recent updates ↗What changed after publication
- Affected versionsThe structured affected or fixed version information changed.CNA ↗
- Before
- 4.1.0 < 4.1.0.242; 4.2.0 < 4.2.0.182; 4.3.0 < 4.3.0.93; 4.4.0 < 4.4.0.57; 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.41; 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.6; 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.42; 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.7 · Fixed: 9.32.160 ≤ *
- After
- WSO2 API Manager: 4.1.0 < 4.1.0.242, 4.2.0 < 4.2.0.182, 4.3.0 < 4.3.0.93, 4.4.0 < 4.4.0.57, 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.41, 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.6; WSO2 API Control Plane: 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.42, 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.7; WSO2 Traffic Manager: 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.40, 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.6; WSO2 Universal Gateway: 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.40, 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.6; WSO2 Carbon API Management Implementation: 9.20.74 < 9.20.74.388, 9.28.116 < 9.28.116.395, 9.29.120 < 9.29.120.213, 9.30.67 < 9.30.67.135, 9.31.86 < 9.31.86.108, 9.32.147 < 9.32.147.5; WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Utility: 9.20.74 < 9.20.74.388, 9.28.116 < 9.28.116.395, 9.29.120 < 9.29.120.213, 9.30.67 < 9.30.67.135, 9.31.86 < 9.31.86.108, 9.32.147 < 9.32.147.5 · Fixed: WSO2 Carbon API Management Implementation: 9.32.160 ≤ *; WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Utility: 9.32.160 ≤ *
CVE published
Fixed release or patch reference recorded
Technical terms and abbreviations used in this report
- CVE
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures: the public identifier for one disclosed vulnerability.
- CVSS
- Common Vulnerability Scoring System: a technical severity framework; it is not patching priority by itself.
- EPSS
- Exploit Prediction Scoring System: FIRST's estimate of the probability that exploitation activity will be observed in the next 30 days; it is a forecast, not confirmation.
- CWE
- Common Weakness Enumeration: the standard category describing the underlying software or hardware weakness.
- CNA
- CVE Numbering Authority: an organisation authorised to assign and publish CVE records.
- CISA ADP
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Authorized Data Publisher: structured enrichment added to a CVE record.
- NVD
- National Vulnerability Database: NIST's enrichment service for CVE records.
- CERT / CSIRT
- A computer security incident response team that publishes warnings or coordinates incident response.
- PoC
- Proof of concept: public material that demonstrates or helps reproduce exploitation.
- CSAF
- Common Security Advisory Framework: a machine-readable format for security advisories.
- LoTL
- Living off the land: abuse of legitimate tools or system functions during an attack.