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Red Hat Keycloak EUVDEUVD-2026-30881

| CVE-2026-37981 MEDIUM
Insufficient Granularity of Access Control (CWE-1220)
2026-05-19 redhat GHSA-933f-rg6j-f46p
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: redhat
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate to Keycloak realm with low-privilege account
  2. Delivery
    Obtain or create a UMA resource to gain endpoint access
  3. Exploit
    Send crafted requests to Account Resources lookup endpoint with arbitrary usernames/emails
  4. Execution
    Receive full user profile objects for unrelated realm members
  5. Persist
    Enumerate all realm users systematically
  6. Impact
    Exfiltrate harvested PII

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Insufficient granularity of access control
Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires two specific conditions: (1) the attacker must hold a valid authenticated session within the target Keycloak realm - confirmed by the CVSS vector PR:L (low privileges required); and (2) the attacker's account must own at least one User-Managed Access (UMA) resource within that realm, as this is what grants access to the Account Resources endpoint. UMA support must be enabled in the realm configuration, which is a non-default or explicitly provisioned state in many deployments. Exploitation is limited to confidentiality impact within the same realm scope (S:U - no scope change). Attackers cannot impact integrity or availability, and cannot cross realm boundaries. The primary limiting factors are the requirement for prior authentication and UMA resource ownership - unauthenticated external attackers cannot exploit this directly.

Impact

The CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) reflects a network-reachable, low-complexity vulnerability requiring only low-privilege authentication with no user interaction - but scoped only to confidentiality with no integrity or availability impact. In practice, the real-world risk exceeds what the base score suggests for multi-tenant or enterprise Keycloak deployments: a single compromised or malicious user account with any UMA resource can systematically enumerate every realm user's full profile, constituting a bulk PII exfiltration risk potentially triggering GDPR or similar regulatory obligations. No EPSS data was provided in the input, no POC is publicly confirmed, and this CVE is not in the CISA KEV catalog, so exploitation remains theoretical but the barrier to exploit is very low given the minimal privilege requirement. There is no CVSS/description conflict - both consistently indicate authenticated network access is sufficient.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who holds a regular Keycloak account and has created or been granted ownership of at least one UMA resource authenticates to the realm and sends a series of crafted HTTP requests to the Account Resources user lookup endpoint, cycling through known or guessed usernames and email addresses. Each request returns a full user profile object for the targeted realm member, enabling systematic harvesting of names, email addresses, and other PII stored in Keycloak profiles. No public POC code is confirmed, but the attack requires only standard HTTP tooling and knowledge of the API endpoint structure.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.0% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – May 19, 2026

Broken access control in Keycloak's Account Resources user lookup endpoint exposes full PII profiles of all realm users to any authenticated user who owns at least one User-Managed Access (UMA) resource. By sending crafted requests with arbitrary usernames or email values to this endpoint, the attacker receives complete profile objects for unrelated realm members - bypassing the intended per-user data isolation. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, but the low attack complexity and minimal privilege requirement (any UMA resource owner) make it a meaningful insider-threat and tenant-isolation risk in shared Keycloak deployments.

RemediationAI

No vendor-released patch version has been identified at time of analysis; the CPE entry carries a wildcard version with no fixed-version counterpart confirmed in the referenced data. Organizations should monitor the Red Hat Security Advisory at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-37981 and the Bugzilla tracker at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455326 for patch availability. As a compensating control, administrators should audit which realm users have UMA resource ownership and restrict UMA feature enablement to only those deployments where it is operationally required - disabling UMA eliminates access to the vulnerable endpoint but removes resource-sharing delegation functionality. Additionally, network-layer access controls restricting the Account Resources API to trusted internal clients or service accounts can reduce exposure surface while awaiting a patch. Enforce least-privilege policies so that UMA resource ownership is not inadvertently granted to untrusted users.

Affected Packages

maven org.keycloak:keycloak-services fix: 26.4.12, 26.6.2

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in maven

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Technical ContextAI · show details

Keycloak's User-Managed Access (UMA) implementation extends OAuth 2.0 to allow end-users to manage fine-grained access policies on their own resources. The Account Resources API endpoint, designed to let a resource owner query access details, performs insufficient granularity of access control (CWE-1220) - it fails to scope returned user-profile data to only those users with a legitimate relationship to the requesting party's resources. Instead, it resolves and returns full user profile objects for any username or email submitted, effectively treating the endpoint as an unauthenticated-equivalent user directory. The affected product is Red Hat Build of Keycloak, tracked under CPE cpe:2.3:a:red_hat:red_hat_build_of_keycloak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, with the wildcard version indicating all currently evaluated builds are in scope.

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Severity by source

Vendor (redhat) PRIMARY 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Red Hat 4.3 MEDIUM

Primary rating from Vendor (redhat).

CVSS VectorVendor: redhat

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

A flaw was found in Keycloak. A broken access control vulnerability in the Account Resources user lookup endpoint allows a remote authenticated user, who owns at least one User-Managed Access (UMA) resource, to enumerate and harvest personally identifiable information (PII) for all realm users. By sending crafted requests with arbitrary usernames or email values, the endpoint returns full profile objects for unrelated users. This leads to broad profile-level information disclosure.

Blast Radius

ecosystem impact
† from your stack dependencies † transitive graph · vuln.today resolves 4-path depth
  • 50 maven packages depend on org.keycloak:keycloak-services (22 direct, 28 indirect)

Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 26.5.0.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.0%
Top 90% exploitable
Data Quality
7 sources
Confidence: High
EUVD NVD CVE.org EPSS Vulnrichment Vendor VulDB

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.0%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

22
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +22
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org

cpe:2.3:a:red_hat:red_hat_build_of_keycloak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2026-18963 CRITICAL POC
9.1 Aug 18

Account takeover in Red Hat Build of Keycloak allows an unauthenticated attacker to abuse the reset-credentials flow in

CVE-2026-16442 CRITICAL
9.8 Aug 05

Account takeover in Keycloak (Red Hat build of Keycloak, Red Hat Single Sign-On 7) arises because the IdP-initiated SAML

CVE-2026-16443 CRITICAL
9.1 Aug 05

Authentication bypass in Red Hat Build of Keycloak (and Red Hat Single Sign-On 7) lets an unauthenticated attacker forge

CVE-2026-15572 HIGH
8.8 Aug 05

Privilege escalation in Red Hat Build of Keycloak's Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) grants an attacker with low-privil

CVE-2026-93569 HIGH
8.2 Sep 18

Mismatched handling of the HTTP/1 absolute-form request authority in Red Hat build of Quarkus and other affected Red Hat

CVE-2026-9800 HIGH
8.1 Jun 25

Authorization bypass in the Keycloak Policy Enforcer allows any authenticated user to circumvent all enforced access con

CVE-2026-15573 HIGH
8.1 Aug 05

URI normalization bypass in Keycloak's Authorization Services PathMatcher allows authenticated low-privilege users to re

CVE-2026-16102 HIGH
8.1 Aug 05

Privilege escalation in Keycloak's Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) component allows attackers with standard user accou

CVE-2026-18214 HIGH
8.1 Jul 31

Token exchange in Keycloak bypasses Google Workspace domain allowlist restrictions, enabling any valid Google account ho

CVE-2026-11800 HIGH
8.1 Jun 25

Signature-verification bypass in Keycloak (and Red Hat's Keycloak-based products such as Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 and Re

CVE-2026-18215 HIGH
8.1 Jul 31

Tenant-restriction bypass in Keycloak's Microsoft identity provider integration allows attackers holding any valid Micro

CVE-2026-18967 HIGH
8.1 Aug 06

Session hijacking via SAML assertion replay in Keycloak's SAML broker component allows adjacent-network attackers to aut

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