CVE-2024-7096: WSO2 API Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in multiple WSO2 products due to a business logic flaw in SOAP admin services. A malicious actor can create a new user with elevated permissions only when all of the following conditions are met: * SOAP admin services are accessible to the attacker. * The deployment includes an internally used attribute that is not part of the default WSO2 product configuration. * At least one custom role exists with non-default permissions. * The attacker has knowledge of the custom role and the internal attribute used in the deployment. Exploiting this vulnerability allows malicious actors to assign higher privileges to self-registered users, bypassing intended access control mechanisms.

Affected products

• WSO2 API Manager: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.2.0 only; version 2.5.0 only; version 2.6.0 only; version 3.0.0 only; …
• WSO2 Identity Server: version 5.2.0 only; version 5.3.0 only; version 5.4.0 only; version 5.4.1 only; version 5.5.0 only; version 5.6.0 only; …
• WSO2 Identity Server As Key Manager: version 5.3.0 only; version 5.5.0 only; version 5.6.0 only; version 5.7.0 only; version 5.9.0 only; version 5.10.0 only
• WSO2 Open Banking AM: version 1.3.0 only; version 1.4.0 only; version 1.5.0 only; version 2.0.0 only
• WSO2 Open Banking Iam: version 2.0.0 only
• WSO2 Open Banking Km: version 1.3.0 only; version 1.4.0 only; version 1.5.0 only

Published 2025-05-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.