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CVE-2016-8609
It was found that the keycloak before 2.3.0 did not implement authentication flow correctly. An attacker could use this flaw to construct…
Low3.7EPSS 1.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
It was found that the keycloak before 2.3.0 did not implement authentication flow correctly. An attacker could use this flaw to construct a phishing URL, from which he could hijack the user's session. This could lead to information disclosure, or permit further possible attacks.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Low3.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.7.
Weakness
Affected products
Red Hat · keycloak
- affected 2.3.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.keycloak:keycloak-coreGHSA-95m6-mjh3-58gm (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8609 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2945 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1037460 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 95070 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-95m6-mjh3-58gm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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