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Keycloak XSS via use of malicious payload as group name when creating new group from admin console

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 27, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2023

Package

maven org.keycloak:keycloak-core (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 16.1.0

Patched versions

None

Description

A flaw was found in Keycloak. This flaw allows a privileged attacker to use the malicious payload as the group name while creating a new group from the admin console, leading to a stored Cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 26, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 27, 2022
Reviewed Sep 2, 2022
Last updated Jan 31, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.058%
(26th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-0225

GHSA ID

GHSA-fqc7-5xxc-ph7r

Source code

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