Keycloak
CVE-2024-1132
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Path canonicalization, traversal prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Discovery, Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 8.1 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could access files and directories outside the intended path by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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A flaw was found in Keycloak, where it does not properly validate URLs included in a redirect. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Validate and canonicalize file paths. Use chroot or sandboxing. Reject input containing path separators or '../' sequences.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 1 package in maven
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Path Traversal (CWE-22), which allows attackers to access files and directories outside the intended path. A flaw was found in Keycloak, where it does not properly validate URLs included in a redirect. This issue could allow an attacker to construct a malicious request to bypass validation and access other URLs and sensitive information within the domain or conduct further attacks. This flaw affects any client that utilizes a wildcard in the Valid Redirect URIs field, and requires user interaction within the malicious URL. Affected products include: Redhat Build Of Keycloak, Redhat Jboss Middleware Text-Only Advisories, Redhat Keycloak, Redhat Migration Toolkit For Applications, Redhat Migration Toolkit For Runtimes.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Primary rating from Vendor (redhat) · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorVendor: redhat
DescriptionCVE.org
A flaw was found in Keycloak, where it does not properly validate URLs included in a redirect. This issue could allow an attacker to construct a malicious request to bypass validation and access other URLs and sensitive information within the domain or conduct further attacks. This flaw affects any client that utilizes a wildcard in the Valid Redirect URIs field, and requires user interaction within the malicious URL.
Blast Radius
ecosystem impact- 17 maven packages depend on org.keycloak:keycloak-services (11 direct, 6 indirect)
Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 23.0.0.
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Attack Technique
Path traversal exploits occur when applications use user-controlled input to construct file system paths without proper validation.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remot
The org.keycloak.services.resources.SocialResource.callback method in JBoss KeyCloak before 1.0.3.Final allows remote at
An unconstrained memory consumption vulnerability was discovered in Keycloak. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.7), this vulne
Due to improper authorization, Red Hat Single Sign-On is vulnerable to users performing actions that they should not be
It was found that the Keycloak Node.js adapter 2.5 - 3.0 did not handle invalid tokens correctly. Rated critical severit
Authentication bypass in the Apache Airflow Keycloak auth manager provider (apache-airflow-providers-keycloak below 0.10
A privilege escalation flaw was found in the token exchange feature of keycloak. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), thi
A vulnerability was found in keycloak 7.x, when keycloak is configured with LDAP user federation and StartTLS is used in
A flaw was found in keycloak in versions before 13.0.0. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.6), this vulnerability is remote
A flaw was found in Keycloak that prevents certain schemes in redirects, but permits them if a wildcard is appended to t
A flaw was found in Keycloak. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack c
A flaw was found in Keycloak before 13.0.0, where it is possible to force the server to call out an unverified URL using
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