CVE-2026-4249
HIGHDenial of Service via Malicious JSON Payloads in Throttling Events in Multiple WSO2 Products Causing Persistent Service Disruption
Title source: cnaDescription
The throttling event handling mechanism in multiple WSO2 products accepts user-supplied JSON payloads without sufficient validation of their structure and content. This allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject malicious JSON data that can lead to a persistent denial of service condition. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can disrupt the API Gateway, preventing legitimate API traffic from being processed and impacting complete service availability. The denial of service is persistent, requiring manual intervention to restore normal operations.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2026-5236/
Scores
CVSS v3
8.6
EPSS
0.0034
EPSS Percentile
26.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-707
Status
published
Products (24)
wso2/api_control_plane
4.5.0 - 4.5.0.55
wso2/api_manager
4.0.0 - 4.0.0.390
wso2/traffic_manager
4.5.0 - 4.5.0.53
wso2/universal_gateway
4.5.0 - 4.5.0.54
WSO2/WSO2 API Control Plane
4.5.0 - 4.5.0.55
WSO2/WSO2 API Control Plane
4.6.0 - 4.6.0.19
WSO2/WSO2 API Control Plane
4.7.0 - 4.7.0.2
WSO2/WSO2 API Manager
< 3.2.0
WSO2/WSO2 API Manager
3.2.0 - 3.2.0.470
WSO2/WSO2 API Manager
3.2.1 - 3.2.1.89
... and 14 more
Published
Jul 06, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 06, 2026