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Keycloak Gatekeeper vulnerable to bypass on using lower case HTTP headers

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 9, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/keycloak/keycloak-gatekeeper (Go)

Affected versions

<= 1.2.8

Patched versions

None

Description

A vulnerability was found in all versions of the deprecated package Keycloak Gatekeeper, where on using lower case HTTP headers (via cURL) we can bypass our Gatekeeper. Lower case headers are also accepted by some webservers (e.g. Jetty). This means there is no protection when we put a Gatekeeper in front of a Jetty server and use lowercase headers.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 23, 2021
Reviewed Apr 1, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 9, 2022
Last updated Jan 31, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS score

0.104%
(44th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-14359

GHSA ID

GHSA-jh6m-3pqw-242h

Source code

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