Keycloak: group-admin escalation to realm-admin (Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4)

CVE-2026-9099
HIGH 7.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.49 % · percentile 42 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A flaw was found in Keycloak. A missing authorization check in the GroupResource.addChild() endpoint within the Admin REST API allows an authenticated user with limited administrative privileges to reparent any existing group. When Fine-Grained Admin Permissions v2 (FGAPv2) is enabled, an attacker with management rights over a single low-privilege group can reparent a highly privileged group (such as one possessing the realm-admin role) under their managed group. Because group permissions follow a hierarchical structure, this action unauthorizedly grants the attacker management and password-reset capabilities over the members of the targeted privileged group. An attacker can exploit this to reset an administrator's password, compromise the account, and achieve a full realm takeover, leading to a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nredhat
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nredhat-SADP
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4unaffected 26.4.13-1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4unaffected 26.4-19 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4unaffected 26.4-19 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.13
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6unaffected 26.6.4-2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6unaffected 26.6-8 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6unaffected 26.6-8 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.4

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD