CVE-2019-14820 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Keycloak

Medium 4.3 Published Updated

Attackers can access unauthorized information by invoking exposed internal adapter endpoints via specially crafted URLs in Keycloak.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2019-14820?

CVE-2019-14820 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, published on 8 Jan 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

It was found that keycloak before version 8.0.0 exposes internal adapter endpoints in org.keycloak.constants.AdapterConstants, which can be invoked via a specially-crafted URL. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to access unauthorized information.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14820?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.keycloak:keycloak-core. It affects 4 products.

PackageAffectedFixed in
org.keycloak:keycloak-core MavenAll versions8.0.0
org.keycloak:keycloak-core MavenAll versions8.0.0
Linux distribution packages (10)
keycloak-adapter-sso7_3-eap6 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6::el6All versions0:4.8.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep6.el6
keycloak-saml-adapter-sso7_3-eap6 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6::el6All versions0:4.8.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep6.el6
keycloak-adapter-sso7_3-eap6 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6::el7All versions0:4.8.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep6.el7
keycloak-saml-adapter-sso7_3-eap6 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6::el7All versions0:4.8.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep6.el7
eap7-keycloak-adapter-sso7_3 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.2::el6All versions0:4.8.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap
eap7-keycloak-saml-adapter-sso7_3 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.2::el6All versions0:4.8.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap
eap7-keycloak-adapter-sso7_3 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.2::el7All versions0:4.8.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
eap7-keycloak-saml-adapter-sso7_3 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.2::el7All versions0:4.8.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
eap7-keycloak-adapter-sso7_3 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.2::el8All versions0:4.8.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
eap7-keycloak-saml-adapter-sso7_3 Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7.2::el8All versions0:4.8.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

Products include Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, Redhat Jboss Fuse, Redhat Keycloak, Redhat Single Sign-On.

How do I fix CVE-2019-14820?

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

Is CVE-2019-14820 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14820 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-xfqh-7356-vqjj, RHSA-2019:3048, RHSA-2019:3049.

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