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keycloak vulnerable to unauthorized login via mail server setup

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 6, 2023

Package

maven org.keycloak:keycloak-core (Maven)

Affected versions

< 8.0.0

Patched versions

8.0.0

Description

A flaw was found in keycloack before version 8.0.0. The owner of 'placeholder.org' domain can setup mail server on this domain and knowing only name of a client can reset password and then log in. For example, for client name 'test' the email address will be 'service-account-test@placeholder.org'.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 7, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Sep 12, 2022
Last updated Nov 6, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-14837

GHSA ID

GHSA-cf8f-w2c5-p5jr

Source code

Credits

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