Insecure Permissions Affecting org.keycloak:keycloak-services package, versions [,12.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGKEYCLOAK-1303394
  • published11 Jun 2021
  • disclosed11 Jun 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2021

CVE-2020-27826  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-275  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.keycloak:keycloak-services to version 12.0.0 or higher.

Overview

org.keycloak:keycloak-services is an open source identity and access management solution for modern applications and services.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Permissions. A flaw was found in Keycloak where it is possible to update the user's metadata attributes using Account REST API. This flaw allows an attacker to change its own NameID attribute to impersonate the admin user for any particular application.

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