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Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.keycloak:keycloak-services package, versions [,2.4.0.Final)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.26% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGKEYCLOAK-466326
  • published 15 Mar 2018
  • disclosed 28 Oct 2016
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 28 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-8629 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-284 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.keycloak:keycloak-services to version 2.4.0.Final 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 Access Restriction Bypass. It did not correctly check permissions when handling service account user deletion requests sent to the rest server. An attacker with service account authentication could use this flaw to bypass normal permissions and delete users in a separate realm.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None