CVE-2025-13590

Authenticated arbitrary file upload via a System REST API requiring administrator permission.

At a glance

Severity: CRITICAL 9.1
EPSS: EPSS 0.77 % · percentile 55 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-02-19
Updated: 2026-10-28
Assigner: WSO2
NVD status: Modified

Description

A malicious actor with administrative privileges can upload an arbitrary file to a user-controlled location within the deployment via a system REST API. Successful uploads may lead to remote code execution. By leveraging the vulnerability, a malicious actor may perform Remote Code Execution by uploading a specially crafted payload.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	WSO2
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · ed10eef1-636d-4fbe-9993-6890dfa878f8 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-434

Advisories

GHSA-p6jf-79j3-33f3 — carbon-apimgt does not properly restrict uploaded files

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-207682
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-13590

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:wso2:api_control_plane:4.5.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wso2:api_control_plane:4.6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wso2:api_manager:4.2.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wso2:api_manager:4.3.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wso2:api_manager:4.4.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wso2:api_manager:4.5.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wso2:api_manager:4.6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wso2:traffic_manager:4.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wso2:traffic_manager:4.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wso2:universal_gateway:4.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wso2:universal_gateway:4.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
WSO2 · WSO2 API Manager	unaffected 0 < 4.2.0 ; affected 4.2.0 < 4.2.0.179 ; affected 4.3.0 < 4.3.0.91 ; affected 4.4.0 < 4.4.0.55 ; affected 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.38 ; affected 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.3
WSO2 · WSO2 API Control Plane	unknown 0 < 4.5.0 ; affected 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.39 ; affected 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.3
WSO2 · WSO2 Universal Gateway	unknown 0 < 4.5.0 ; affected 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.37 ; affected 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.3
WSO2 · WSO2 Traffic Manager	unknown 0 < 4.5.0 ; affected 4.5.0 < 4.5.0.37 ; affected 4.6.0 < 4.6.0.3
WSO2 · org.wso2.carbon.apimgt:org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl	affected 9.28.116 < 9.28.116.391 ; affected 9.29.120 < 9.29.120.210 ; affected 9.30.67 < 9.30.67.133 ; affected 9.31.86 < 9.31.86.100 ; affected 9.32.147 < 9.32.147.2 ; unaffected 9.32.167 ≤ *

References

https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2025-4849/

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD