CVE-2026-19688: Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: admin api missing audience check
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 27/100)
- 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: 0.31% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
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 the Admin REST API of Keycloak, an identity and access management solution. The Admin API fails to verify the intended audience of bearer tokens during authentication. This issue allows an attacker who operates a client within a realm to capture an administrator's access token and reuse it to perform unauthorized administrative actions, potentially leading to full realm compromise.
- Published
- Nov 6, 2026
- Updated
- Nov 6, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.3% · 24th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-287
Report tools
Action score
27
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.3%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · redhat
- 6.8
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- Not in KEV: no record of exploitation in the wild
- No public exploit code on record
- No fixed version yet
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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.
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6
- 26.6.8-2 and laternot affected · rpm
- 26.6-24 and laternot affected · rpm
- 26.6-24 and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.8
- all versionsunknown
- all versionsunknown
Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
- all versionsunknown
Same product
red hat: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-117691Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: saml redirect binding signature bypass via percent-encoded parameter names36Monitor
- CVE-2026-97175Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: unverified idp email auto-linking enables account takeover35Monitor
- CVE-2024-3656Keycloak: unguarded admin rest api endpoints allows low privilege users to use administrative functionalities33Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-107124Nov 6, 2026 · Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: oidc logout endpoint session fixation via id_token_hint leading to account takeover25Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-109081Nov 6, 2026 · Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: injection of roles into realm default-roles via dcr endpoint27Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-92856Nov 6, 2026 · Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: saml broker ignores proxyrestriction delegation constraints19Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
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
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
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.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
- CVE-2026-971751 days apartKeycloak-services: keycloak-services: unverified idp email auto-linking enables account takeover35Monitor
- CVE-2026-928551 days apartKeycloak-services: keycloak-services: saml broker accepts holder-of-key assertions without proof of key possession29Monitor
- CVE-2026-978471 days apartKeycloak-services: keycloak-services: client manager can substitute sessionless token principal via hardcoded-claim mappers to obtain realm administrator author28Monitor
- CVE-2026-10908225 days apartKeycloak-services: keycloak-services: ciba confidential-only contract not enforced for public clients27Monitor
- CVE-2026-9784642 days apartKeycloak-services: keycloak-services: standard token exchange v2 bypasses mtls holder-of-key binding27Monitor
- CVE-2026-9644544 days apartKeycloak-services: keycloak-services: conditional otp skip-header policy evaluated against untrusted proxy headers27Monitor
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.
- Administrator privileges are required.
- A user must open a link or visit a page.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-287 · Improper AuthenticationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
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 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
// Route added later skips the middleware
app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);Fixed
const admin = express.Router();
admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
app.use("/admin", admin);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- Authentication AbuseCAPEC-114Medium
- Authentication BypassCAPEC-115Medium
- Identity SpoofingCAPEC-151likelihood: Medium · Medium
- Fake the Source of DataCAPEC-194Medium
- Exploiting Trust in ClientCAPEC-22likelihood: High · High
- Utilizing REST's Trust in the System Resource to Obtain Sensitive DataCAPEC-57likelihood: Medium · Very High
- Session HijackingCAPEC-593likelihood: High · Very High
- Token ImpersonationCAPEC-633Medium
ATT&CK techniques
Change log
- SSVC exploitation— → none
- Exploit maturity— → none
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.