High

CVE-2024-6832 — Account Lockout Failure via Secondary User Store Inaccessibility in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows Brute Force Attacks

The account locking mechanism fails to trigger when secondary user stores are inaccessible. The software does not maintain a consistent state for account locking if it cannot reach all configured user stores, allowing an attacker to repeatedly attempt authentication with invalid credentials without triggering the lockout mechanism for users within active stores. When the account locking mechanism is bypassed due to the inaccessibility of secondary user stores, users in accessible user stores are left vulnerable to brute force attacks. A malicious actor can exploit this by attempting numerous invalid password combinations against a user account without the expected account lockout consequence.

Published Aug 6, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Sources: NIST National Vulnerability Database, CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP · CNA: WSO2

Low

Who exploits it and how urgent it is

A 0–100 score combining confirmed exploitation, ransomware and APT use, public exploits, EPSS and severity.

No exploitation signal in the sources consulted so far.

How the score was calculated

Technical severity (high)+6

The score orders the patch queue; it does not replace your asset context (internet exposure, criticality, compensating controls).

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the sources call it.

Exploitation

Not confirmed

Not in CISA KEV — an absence of record, not proof it is unexploited.

EPSS FIRST

—

No EPSS score.

Affects

WSO2

Api Control Plane and 9 more

CVSS base

7.5

High · 3 source(s)

CISA SSVC assessment CISA

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses (SSVC 2.0.3). A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

can an attacker script the kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Partial

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Remediation

Fixes and mitigations documented by the sources — linked to the original advisory.

No fix documented by the sources we poll. That does not mean none exists: check the vendor advisory.

First 24 hours

Ordered from the record’s own fields — exposure first, because you cannot patch what you have not found. A rule-generated starting point.

Identify exposed assets running the affected vendor/product/version combinations (WSO2 Api Control Plane, WSO2 Api Manager, WSO2 Enterprise Integrator…).
The attack is network-based and needs no privileges: restrict exposure (ACLs, VPN, WAF) until patched.
No fix documented in the sources: reduce exposure and monitor the vendor advisory.
Search available logs for exploit probes, errors and authentication anomalies.

Affected scope

Vendor, product and versions as the sources word them.

Vendor	Product	Versions	Status	Source
WSO2	Api Control Plane	version 4.6.0version 4.5.0	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
WSO2	Api Control Plane	≥ 4.5.0 and < 4.5.0.40≥ 4.6.0 and < 4.6.0.4≥ 4.6.0 and < 4.6.0.5	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
WSO2	Api Manager	≥ 4.6.0 and < 4.6.0.4≥ 4.5.0 and < 4.5.0.39≥ 4.4.0 and < 4.4.0.55≥ 4.3.0 and < 4.3.0.91≥ 4.2.0 and < 4.2.0.179≥ 4.1.0 and < 4.1.0.238≥ 3.2.1 and < 3.2.1.74≥ 3.2.0 and < 3.2.0.455 and 2 more ≥ 3.2.0 and < 3.2.0.386≥ 3.1.0 and < 3.1.0.296	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
WSO2	Api Manager	version 4.6.0version 4.5.0version 4.4.0version 4.3.0version 4.2.0version 4.1.0version 3.2.1version 3.2.0 and 1 more version 3.1.0	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
WSO2	Enterprise Integrator	≥ 6.6.0 and < 6.6.0.229	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
WSO2	Identity Server	version 5.11.0version 5.10.0version 6.0.0version 6.1.0version 7.0.0	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
WSO2	Identity Server	≥ 5.10.0 and < 5.10.0.320≥ 5.11.0 and < 5.11.0.427≥ 6.0.0 and < 6.0.0.254≥ 6.1.0 and < 6.1.0.195≥ 7.0.0 and < 7.0.0.82	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
WSO2	Identity Server As Key Manager	version 5.10.0	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
WSO2	Identity Server As Key Manager	≥ 5.10.0 and < 5.10.0.314	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
WSO2	Open Banking Am	version 2.0.0	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
WSO2	Open Banking Am	≥ 2.0.0 and < 2.0.0.345	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
WSO2	Open Banking Iam	version 2.0.0	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
WSO2	Open Banking Iam	≥ 2.0.0 and < 2.0.0.366	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
WSO2	Traffic Manager	≥ 4.6.0 and < 4.6.0.5≥ 4.6.0 and < 4.6.0.4≥ 4.5.0 and < 4.5.0.38	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
WSO2	Traffic Manager	version 4.6.0version 4.5.0	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
WSO2	Universal Gateway	≥ 4.6.0 and < 4.6.0.5≥ 4.5.0 and < 4.5.0.38≥ 4.6.0 and < 4.6.0.4	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
WSO2	Universal Gateway	version 4.6.0version 4.5.0	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
WSO2	WSO2 Carbon User Manager Kernel	≥ 4.10.9 and < 4.10.9.49≥ 4.9.33 and < 4.9.33.4≥ 4.9.28 and < 4.9.28.21≥ 4.9.27 and < 4.9.27.19≥ 4.9.26 and < 4.9.26.33≥ 4.8.1 and < 4.8.1.46≥ 4.7.1 and < 4.7.1.78≥ 4.7.1 and < 4.7.1.77 and 7 more ≥ 4.6.4 and < 4.6.4.25≥ 4.6.3 and < 4.6.3.44≥ 4.6.1 and < 4.6.1.164≥ 4.6.1 and < 4.6.1.163≥ 4.6.0 and < 4.6.0.196≥ 4.5.3 and < 4.5.3.53≥ 4.5.0 and < 4.5.0.7	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP

Attack characteristics

The CVSS vector, decoded. It describes the attack, not your exposure to it.

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and may disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

Score	Version	Severity	Expl.	Impact	Scored by
7.5	CVSS 3.1	High	3.9	3.6	nvd@nist.gov via NIST National Vulnerability Database
5.9	CVSS 3.1	Medium	2.2	3.6	ed10eef1-636d-4fbe-9993-6890dfa878f8 via NIST National Vulnerability Database
5.9	CVSS 3.1	Medium	—	—	WSO2 via CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N (score shown at the top: nvd@nist.gov)

Scoring entities (NIST, CNA, ADP) score independently; each score is shown with its origin. For prioritization we use 7.5 (NVD (NIST)) as a conservative provisional reference — not a definitive official score.

Weakness MITRE

Weakness class according to MITRE’s CWE catalog.

CWE-693

Other CVEs with this weakness →

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not tested rules.

Prioritize edge telemetry for the network-reachable component (proxy, WAF, IDS/IPS).

web/proxy/WAF logsnetwork IDS/IPS

Timeline

What happened to this CVE, newest first.

2026
Affected products added · wso2/wso2 enterprise integrator, wso2/wso2 api control plane, wso2/wso2 traffic manager, wso2/wso2 universal gateway, ws
Oct 15, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
SSVC assessment updated
Oct 15, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
Record published
Oct 15, 2026
CVSS changed · 7.5
Oct 15, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
Source status changed · → Analyzed
Oct 15, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
Record created in this database
Oct 15, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
CVE published
Aug 6, 2026 · WSO2

Source activity

Repeated readings are counted rather than listed.

1× Official description updated · Oct 15, 2026 – Oct 15, 2026

References

1 on the record

security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2024-3
Vendor Advisory, vendor-advisory, NIST National Vulnerability Database

Elsewhere on this site

WSO2
every CVE for this vendor

CWE-693
other pages naming this weakness

Related CVEs (same products)

Medium CVE-2024-8122 Potential brute force vulnerability due to non-expiring SMS OTPs 7d
Low CVE-2025-13166 Username Enumeration via SMS OTP Flow in WSO2 Identity Server Allows User Account Discovery Sep 15, 2026
High CVE-2025-12737 OS Command Injection in WSO2 Api Control Plane Sep 3, 2026
High CVE-2026-3416 Use of Insufficiently Random Values in WSO2 Api Control Plane Sep 3, 2026
Critical CVE-2026-3418 Arbitrary File Upload via System REST API in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows Remote Code Execution Aug 6, 2026
High CVE-2026-3415 XML External Entity (XXE) Injection via Schema Validation in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows File Reading and Denial of Service Aug 6, 2026

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

No FIRST EPSS score.
No fixed version, patch or mitigation documented.
No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.

Answered from this record

Text assembled only from the fields above — no additional claims.

What should defenders know first?

CVE-2024-6832 is "Account Lockout Failure via Secondary User Store Inaccessibility in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows Brute Force Attacks", rated High. It affects Api Control Plane (WSO2); versions are in the scope table. It is not in CISA KEV, which does not rule out exploitation. CVSS 7.5 describes technical severity. First verify whether exposed or business-critical assets run the affected versions, apply vendor fixes or mitigations, and preserve logs for review.

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