CVE-2023-0105· NVD / CVE Program· CNA redhat

A flaw was found in Keycloak.

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 26/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.71% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 53.4% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
Fixed version: org.keycloak:keycloak-core (Maven) 22.0.1; rh-sso7-keycloak (Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el7) 0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el7sso; rh-sso7-keycloak-server (Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el7) 0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el7sso.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to org.keycloak:keycloak-core (Maven) 22.0.1; rh-sso7-keycloak (Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el7) 0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el7sso; rh-sso7-keycloak-server (Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el7) 0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el7sso or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

A flaw was found in Keycloak. This flaw allows impersonation and lockout due to the email trust not being handled correctly in Keycloak. An attacker can shadow other users with the same email and lockout or impersonate them.

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Published: Jan 13, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.7% · 53th percentile
CWE: CWE-287

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.7%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
redhat	keycloak	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:keycloak
redhat	single sign-on	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:single_sign-on

Affected versions

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redhat keycloakall versions

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (redhat). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

redhat.com Keycloak
- n/aunknown

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Maven	org.keycloak:keycloak-core	before 22.0.1	22.0.1
Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el7	rh-sso7-keycloak	before 0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el7sso	0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el7sso
Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el7	rh-sso7-keycloak-server	before 0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el7sso	0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el7sso
Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el8	rh-sso7-keycloak	before 0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el8sso	0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el8sso
Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el8	rh-sso7-keycloak-server	before 0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el8sso	0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el8sso
Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el9	rh-sso7-keycloak	before 0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el9sso	0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el9sso
Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el9	rh-sso7-keycloak-server	before 0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el9sso	0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el9sso

Same product

redhat: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2020-10770A flaw was found in Keycloak before 13.0.0, where it is possible to force the server to call out an unverified URL using the OIDC parameter
42Plan
CVE-2022-1245A privilege escalation flaw was found in the token exchange feature of keycloak.
39Monitor
CVE-2019-14910A vulnerability was found in keycloak 7.x, when keycloak is configured with LDAP user federation and StartTLS is used instead of SSL/TLS fro
39Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2022-3782Jan 13, 2023 · keycloak: path traversal via double URL encoding.
38Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2023-0091Jan 13, 2023 · A flaw was found in Keycloak, where it did not properly check client tokens for possible revocation in its client credential flow.
15Monitor
Later →CVE-2022-1274Mar 29, 2023 · A flaw was found in Keycloak in the execute-actions-email endpoint.
21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Maven:org.keycloak:keycloak-core	22.0.1	Package registry (OSV)
red hat:rh-sso7-keycloak	0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el7sso · Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el7	Package registry (OSV)
red hat:rh-sso7-keycloak-server	0:18.0.11-2.redhat_00001.1.el7sso · Red Hat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7.6::el7	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: low · the service can be disrupted

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

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

nvd-primary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
2

3// Route added later skips the middleware
4app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

1const admin = express.Router();
2admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
3

4admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
5app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:44 PM UTC

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References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0105

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