CVE-2022-1466 Improper authorization in Keycloak

What is CVE-2022-1466?

CVE-2022-1466 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Redhat Keycloak, published on 26 Apr 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Due to improper authorization, Red Hat Single Sign-On is vulnerable to users performing actions that they should not be allowed to perform. It was possible to add users to the master realm even though no respective permission was granted.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1466?

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

Products include Redhat Keycloak, Redhat Single Sign-On.

How do I fix CVE-2022-1466?

Upgrade org.keycloak:keycloak-core to 17.0.1 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2022-1466 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1466 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-f32v-vf79-p29q.