# CVE-2025-5605: WSO2 Identity Server - Authentication Bypass

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-5605 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-5605

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 4.3
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** WSO2 Identity Server, WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, WSO2 Universal Gateway, WSO2 Traffic Manager, WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 API Control Plane, WSO2 Identity Server as Key Manager, WSO2 Open Banking AM, WSO2 Open Banking IAM
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-290 (Authentication Bypass by Spoofing)
- **Tags:** enterprise_software

## 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.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-5605](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-5605) is an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting the Management Console of several WSO2 products, allowing attackers to manipulate request URIs and gain unauthorized access to restricted resources. While the exposure is limited to partial information disclosure, such as memory statistics, this flaw could aid attackers in gathering internal system details for further exploitation or reconnaissance.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 26th of November 2025.

CrowdSec network observations suggest that most exploitation of CVE-2025-5605 involves focused reconnaissance to identify viable targets. Attackers typically tailor their campaigns based on system exposure and configuration. It is unlikely that a given attack is accidental.
Telemetry from the CrowdSec network also shows that exploitation activity for CVE-2025-5605 remains steady week-over-week. Attack volumes are consistent with long-term trends, indicating sustained interest from threat actors. CVE-2025-5605 continues to be an active part of the threat landscape and will likely remain this way for the forseeable future.

Attackers exploit authentication bypass by requesting URLs such as `/carbon/server-admin/memory_info.jsp;.jar`, manipulating the URI to gain unauthorized access to internal memory statistics on WSO2 Management Console endpoints.

## Timeline

- 2025-10-24: CVE Published. CVE-2025-5605 is published to NVD.
- 2025-11-26: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-5605 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-11-28: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-5605 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-5605.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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