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CVE-2026-97848: Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: protocol mapper with jsontype=json bypasses token sanitization

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: 0.25% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. 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 token sanitization logic of Keycloak, an open source identity and access management solution. The issue occurs when a protocol mapper is configured to emit structured claims using the JSON type. The security check designed to remove unauthorized role mappings only looks for standard Java maps and fails to recognize Jackson based JSON objects. This allows an attacker to inject forged client roles into security tokens, which could lead to unauthorized access to protected resources.

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Nov 6, 2026
Updated
Nov 6, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 17th percentile

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Action score

26

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CNA vs NVD score

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CNA · redhat
6.5
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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 26.4

    • 26.4.17-2 and laternot affected · rpm
    • 26.4-29 and laternot affected · rpm
    • 26.4-30 and laternot affected · rpm

  • Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.17

    • all versionsunknown
    • all versionsunknown

  • 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

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-117691Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: saml redirect binding signature bypass via percent-encoded parameter names
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2026-97175Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: unverified idp email auto-linking enables account takeover
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2024-3656Keycloak: unguarded admin rest api endpoints allows low privilege users to use administrative functionalities
    33Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-96547Nov 6, 2026 · Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: dcr registration-time claim-path gap allows forging realm_access.roles
    26Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-97367Nov 6, 2026 · Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: dcr azp and sid claim substitution allows account rest session takeover
    25Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-9797Nov 6, 2026 · Keycloak: keycloak: privilege escalation via client authentication manipulation by an authenticated administrator
    26Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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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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Credits

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Variant candidates

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

  • CVE-2026-928571 days apartKeycloak-services: keycloak-services: dcr protocol mapper config not validated, allowing iat holders to forge sub and aud claims in signed tokens
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2026-971741 days apartKeycloak-services: keycloak-services: ciba sub parameter injection causes attacker authentication to issue victim tokens
    27Monitor
  • CVE-2026-0976295 days apartOrg.keycloak/keycloak-quarkus-server: keycloak: proxy bypass due to improper handling of matrix parameters in url paths
    14Monitor

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.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

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