# Improper Access Control via Secret Type Management API in WSO2 Identity Server

CVE record · `CVE-2025-14779`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-14779`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 3.8 Low
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** WSO2
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-281](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/281.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-281](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-281.md)
- **Technologies:** [WSO2 Identity Server](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-identity-server.md) · [WSO2 Carbon Identity API Server Secret Management Common](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-carbon-identity-api-server-secret-management-common.md) · [WSO2 Carbon Identity API Server Secret Management V1](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-carbon-identity-api-server-secret-management-v1.md)
- **Published:** 6 Aug 2026
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: WSO2) at 6 Aug 2026, 07:33 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.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Identity Server.
  - affected: `6.0.0 to before 6.0.0.261` (custom)
  - affected: `6.1.0 to before 6.1.0.262` (custom)
  - affected: `7.1.0 to before 7.1.0.46` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Carbon Identity API Server Secret Management Common.
  - affected: `1.2.3 to before 1.2.3.7` (custom)
  - affected: `1.2.23 to before 1.2.23.11` (custom)
  - affected: `1.3.83 to before 1.3.83.16` (custom)
  - unaffected: `7.8.521 to *, inclusive` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
  - Package name: `org.wso2.carbon.identity.server.api:org.wso2.carbon.identity.api.server.secret.management.common`
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Carbon Identity API Server Secret Management V1.
  - affected: `1.2.3 to before 1.2.3.7` (custom)
  - affected: `1.2.23 to before 1.2.23.11` (custom)
  - affected: `1.3.83 to before 1.3.83.16` (custom)
  - unaffected: `7.8.521 to *, inclusive` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
  - Package name: `org.wso2.carbon.identity.server.api:org.wso2.carbon.identity.api.server.secret.management.v1`

## 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

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

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0032, the 24th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 6 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-14779](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14779)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-14779](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14779)

### References from the CNA

- <https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2025-4597/> (vendor-advisory)

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