cve-2025-13590

CRITICAL CVSS 9.1 cvelistv5
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.

Timeline
Published
2026-02-19 10:05 UTC
Last Modified
2026-09-23
CVSS Details
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
Affected Products
  • WSO2 WSO2 API Manager
  • WSO2 WSO2 API Control Plane
  • WSO2 WSO2 Universal Gateway
  • WSO2 WSO2 Traffic Manager
  • WSO2 org.wso2.carbon.apimgt:org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-434
SSVC (CISA Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization) CISA Coordinator v2.0.3
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Decision timestamp
2026-02-20T20:32:33.048480Z

What is SSVC? — CISA's vulnerability-prioritisation framework using a decision tree rather than a single score.

References
Linked Vulnerabilities

No linked vulnerabilities found.

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