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CVE-2026-18573

Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: client access-type policy condition bypass during client update

Published: Aug 2, 2026Updated: Aug 3, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-862
6.5MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 84.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Workaround Only
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

A flaw was found in the keycloak-services component of Keycloak, which is used for managing authentication and authorization flows. The issue occurs when a realm administrator configures client policies to enforce specific authentication requirements on confidential clients. Due to improper evaluation of the client state during an update operation, an attacker with client management permissions can bypass these security policies by first creating a public client and then updating it to a confidential client with weaker authentication. This can result in the persistence of clients that do not comply with the intended security hardening of the realm.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:UC:NI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:HIntegrity
High
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-862

Affected Products

Red Hat
commercial·US
Red Hat Build of Keycloak
Web & CMS Plugins
Red Hat Data Grid 8On-premDatabase
Databases / cache-message-queue
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion PackOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7On-premSecurity Product
Security Products / identity-access-mgmt

Exploitability

Workaround Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18573
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2509764
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