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CVE-2022-1245
A privilege escalation flaw was found in the token exchange feature of keycloak. Missing authorization allows a client application holding…
Critical9.8EPSS 1.4%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- redhat
Description
A privilege escalation flaw was found in the token exchange feature of keycloak. Missing authorization allows a client application holding a valid access token to exchange tokens for any target client by passing the client_id of the target. This could allow a client to gain unauthorized access to additional services.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
keycloak
- affected keycloak versions prior to 18.0.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.keycloak:keycloak-servicesGHSA-75p6-52g3-rqc8 (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/security/advisories/GHSA-75p6-52g3-rqc8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-75p6-52g3-rqc8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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