CVE-2025-14559 (GCVE-0-2025-14559)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-01-21 06:13
Modified
2026-02-10 01:04
CWE
Summary
A flaw was found in the keycloak-services component of Keycloak. This vulnerability allows the issuance of access and refresh tokens for disabled users, leading to unauthorized use of previously revoked privileges, via a business logic vulnerability in the Token Exchange implementation when a privileged client invokes the token exchange flow.
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2365 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2366 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14559 vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2421711 issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 Unaffected: 26.4.9-1   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.4::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 Unaffected: 26.4-11   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.4::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 Unaffected: 26.4-10   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.4::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.9     cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.4::el9
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