PT-2018-5037 · Red Hat · Red Hat Keycloak+1

Chess Hazlett · Published 2018-03-12 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2016-8629

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Red Hat Keycloak versions prior to 2.4.0

Description The issue arises from incorrect permission checks when handling service account user deletion requests sent to the rest server. An attacker with service account authentication could exploit this to bypass normal permissions and delete users in a separate realm.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.4.0, update to version 2.4.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-8629

GHSA-778X-2MQV-W6XW

RHSA-2017:0872

RHSA-2017:0873

Affected Products

Keycloak

Red Hat Keycloak

References · 11

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8629 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8629 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-778x-2mqv-w6xw · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1388988 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-778x-2mqv-w6xw · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1038180 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8629 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/97392 · Note