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GHSA-WX5M-WHR8-48H5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-31 09:31 – Updated: 2026-07-31 09:31

Details

A flaw was found in the group policy evaluation logic of Keycloak, an identity and access management solution. When a group policy is set to extend permissions to child groups, the system incorrectly uses a simple text-based prefix check to verify group membership. This allows a user who belongs to a different group with a similar starting name to bypass security checks and gain unauthorized access to administrative functions or protected resources.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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CVE-2026-18203 (GCVE-0-2026-18203)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-31 07:08 – Updated: 2026-08-31 15:01

Title

Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: group policy extendchildren matches sibling group path prefixes

Summary

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-31 23:20 UTC

CWE

CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Assigner

redhat redhat root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18203	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2508291	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

4 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Build of Keycloak	cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:
Red Hat	Red Hat Data Grid 8	cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_data_grid:8
Red Hat	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack	cpe:/a:redhat:jbosseapxp
Red Hat	Red Hat Single Sign-On 7	cpe:/a:redhat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7

Date Public

2026-07-28 13:44

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Paul Bottinelli (Trail of Bits in collaboration with OpenAI) for reporting this issue.

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