CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-27826

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Published: May 28, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
4.2
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4.2 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Ubuntu

A flaw was found in Keycloak before version 12.0.0 where it is possible to update the users metadata attributes using Account REST API. This flaw allows an attacker to change its own NameID attribute to impersonate the admin user for any particular application.

Weakness

The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Keycloak Redhat * 12.0.0 (excluding)
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4 for RHEL 6 RedHat rh-sso7-keycloak-0:9.0.10-1.redhat_00001.1.el6sso *
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4 for RHEL 7 RedHat rh-sso7-keycloak-0:9.0.10-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso *
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4 for RHEL 8 RedHat rh-sso7-keycloak-0:9.0.10-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso *
Text-Only RHSSO RedHat *

Potential Mitigations

References