CVE-2019-10170 Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in Keycloak

What is CVE-2019-10170?

CVE-2019-10170 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Redhat Keycloak, published on 8 May 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in the Keycloak admin console, where the realm management interface permits a script to be set via the policy. This flaw allows an attacker with authenticated user and realm management permissions to configure a malicious script to trigger and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application user.

Weakness: CWE-267

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10170?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.keycloak:keycloak-core. It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Keycloak.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10170?

Upgrade org.keycloak:keycloak-core to 8.0.0 or later.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2019-10170 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10170 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Keycloak

• CVE-2022-4361 Keycloak vulnerable to cross-site scripting when validating URI-schemes on SAML and OIDC Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-1245 Keycloak vulnerable to privilege escalation on Token Exchange feature Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-20195 keycloak Self Stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability Critical 9.6
• CVE-2019-14910 Keycloak Authentication Error Critical 9.3
• CVE-2019-14909 Keycloak Authentication Error Critical 9.3

All Redhat Keycloak vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7m27-3587-83xf.