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Keycloak Missing authentication for critical function

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 12, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 7, 2023

Package

maven org.keycloak:keycloak-core (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 12.0.4

Patched versions

None

Description

A flaw was found in Keycloak 12.0.0 where re-authentication does not occur while updating the password. This flaw allows an attacker to take over an account if they can obtain temporary, physical access to a user’s browser. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 9, 2021
Reviewed Mar 12, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 12, 2021
Last updated Sep 7, 2023

Severity

Moderate

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
Physical
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

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:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.070%
(32nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-20262

GHSA ID

GHSA-xf46-8vvp-4hxx

Source code

No known source code
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