# Broken Access Control via System REST APIs in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows Unauthorized Administrative Actions

CVE record · `CVE-2025-11969`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-11969`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 9.4 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+
- **CNA:** WSO2
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-285](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/285.html)
- **Tags:** [Broken access control](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/access-control.md)
- **Technologies:** [WSO2 API Manager](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-api-manager.md) · [WSO2 Identity Server as Key Manager](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-identity-server-as-key-manager.md) · [WSO2 Open Banking AM](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-open-banking-am.md) · [WSO2 Open Banking IAM](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-open-banking-iam.md) · [WSO2 API Control Plane](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-api-control-plane.md) · [WSO2 Universal Gateway](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-universal-gateway.md) · [WSO2 Traffic Manager](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-traffic-manager.md) · [WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Utility](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-carbon-api-manager-rest-api-utility.md) · [WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Common Functions](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-carbon-api-manager-rest-api-common-functions.md)
- **Published:** 2 Nov 2026
- **Updated:** 2 Nov 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: WSO2) at 2 Nov 2026, 05:53 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 9.4: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 API Manager.
  - unknown: `before 3.1.0` (custom)
  - affected: `3.1.0 to before 3.1.0.347` (custom)
  - affected: `3.2.0 to before 3.2.0.450` (custom)
  - affected: `3.2.1 to before 3.2.1.70` (custom)
  - affected: `4.0.0 to before 4.0.0.370` (custom)
  - affected: `4.1.0 to before 4.1.0.233` (custom)
  - affected: `4.2.0 to before 4.2.0.173` (custom)
  - affected: `4.3.0 to before 4.3.0.85` (custom)
  - affected: `4.4.0 to before 4.4.0.49` (custom)
  - affected: `4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.32` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Identity Server as Key Manager.
  - unknown: `before 5.10.0` (custom)
  - affected: `5.10.0 to before 5.10.0.367` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Open Banking AM.
  - unknown: `before 2.0.0` (custom)
  - affected: `2.0.0 to before 2.0.0.396` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Open Banking IAM.
  - unknown: `before 2.0.0` (custom)
  - affected: `2.0.0 to before 2.0.0.416` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 API Control Plane.
  - unknown: `before 4.5.0` (custom)
  - affected: `4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.33` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Universal Gateway.
  - unknown: `before 4.5.0` (custom)
  - affected: `4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.31` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Traffic Manager.
  - unknown: `before 4.5.0` (custom)
  - affected: `4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.31` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Utility.
  - affected: `6.6.163 to before 6.6.163.159` (custom)
  - affected: `6.6.163 to before 6.6.163.160` (custom)
  - affected: `6.7.206 to before 6.7.206.574` (custom)
  - affected: `6.7.206 to before 6.7.206.576` (custom)
  - affected: `6.7.210 to before 6.7.210.69` (custom)
  - affected: `6.7.210 to before 6.7.210.71` (custom)
  - affected: `9.0.174 to before 9.0.174.536` (custom)
  - affected: `9.20.74 to before 9.20.74.384` (custom)
  - affected: `9.20.74 to before 9.20.74.385` (custom)
  - affected: `9.28.116 to before 9.28.116.380` (custom)
  - affected: `9.29.120 to before 9.29.120.202` (custom)
  - affected: `9.30.67 to before 9.30.67.125` (custom)
  - and 2 more
  - Other versions: unknown
  - Package name: `org.wso2.carbon.apimgt:org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.util`
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Common Functions.
  - affected: `9.0.174 to before 9.0.174.538` (custom)
  - affected: `9.20.74 to before 9.20.74.385` (custom)
  - affected: `9.28.116 to before 9.28.116.382` (custom)
  - affected: `9.29.120 to before 9.29.120.204` (custom)
  - affected: `9.30.67 to before 9.30.67.126` (custom)
  - affected: `9.31.86 to before 9.31.86.91` (custom)
  - unaffected: `9.32.147 to *, inclusive` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
  - Package name: `org.wso2.carbon.apimgt:org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.common`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.4 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L`, from CNA (WSO2)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0032, the 25th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 2 Nov 2026, 05:53 UTC: [Confirmed by the CVE List](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11969)
- 2 Nov 2026, 06:03 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 2 Nov 2026, 06:17 UTC: [Confirmed by NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11969)

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-11969](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11969)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-11969](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11969)

### References from the CNA

- <https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2025-4733/> (vendor-advisory)

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

## Check whether this affects you

This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it. Compare the affected versions above with what you run.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), `get_advisory` returns this record and `search_advisories` finds related ones. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/CVE-2025-11969>
- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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