🛡️ CVE-2023-6837
🟠 CVSS 8.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-863 NVD
8.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Multiple WSO2 products have been identified as vulnerable to perform user impersonatoin using JIT provisioning. In order for this vulnerability to have any impact on your deployment, following conditions must be met: * An IDP configured for federated authentication and JIT provisioning enabled with the "Prompt for username, password and consent" option. * A service provider that uses the above IDP for federated authentication and has the "Assert identity using mapped local subject identifier" flag enabled. Attacker should have: * A fresh valid user account in the federated IDP that has not been used earlier. * Knowledge of the username of a valid user in the local IDP. When all preconditions are met, a malicious actor could use JIT provisioning flow to perform user impersonation.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-863
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-12-15
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-06-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
api-manager 4.0.0 4.0.0.35
carbon-identity-application-authentication-endpoint 5.12.154.0 5.20.254
carbon-identity-application-authentication-framework 5.18.188.0 5.20.254
identity-server 5.11.0 5.11.0.69
identity-server-as-key-manager 5.10.0 5.10.0.80
org.wso2.carbon.identity.framework:org.wso2.carbon.identity.application.authentication.framework 5.20.254
org.wso2.identity.apps:authentication-portal 1.6.179.1

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