Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: delegated admin escalates to realm-admin via group move
- Exploited
- No known exploitation
- Fix
- No fix listed
- Who is exposed
- Not reported
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- 25/100 · provisional
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- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
Red Hat Build of Keycloak and Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 contain a flaw in the keycloak-services group-move and organization group reparenting endpoints, which fail to check whether a target parent group grants administrative roles. A delegated administrator who can reach these endpoints over the network, and who has logged in with high privileges, can move a group they control under an administrative group, giving its members full realm-admin privileges and complete control of the realm.
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A flaw was found in the group-move and organization group reparenting endpoints of the keycloak-services component. This component is responsible for core authentication and authorization services in the Red Hat build of Keycloak. The issue occurs because the system fails to check if a target parent group confers administrative roles when a group is moved. A delegated administrator can exploit this to move a group they control under an administrative group, causing all members to inherit full realm-admin privileges and gain complete control over the realm.
cve.now Index
- Exploitation?/40Unknown. No CISA SSVC exploitation rating yet
- Exposure3/25Reachable over the network · Unknown: No advisory context yet
- Reach10/20Shipped in major Linux distributions
- Severity6.6/10CVSS 6.6
- No patch5/5No patch listed yet
What would change the score
- Would score about 80 if added to CISA KEV
- Would score about 75 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
- Would score about 44 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed
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Timeline
- CVE published
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Affected versions
- keycloak-services
Version range not reported
- rhbk/keycloak-rhel9
Version range not reported
- keycloak-services
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Evidence 4
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