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CVE-2026-16102

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Summary

A flaw was found in the Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) component of Keycloak, an identity and access management solution. The default DCR policy fails to properly validate the claim path for User Property mappers, allowing them to write values to sensitive internal claim locations. An attacker with a standard user account and a limited Initial Access Token can exploit this to forge administrative roles in their access token. This allows the attacker to take over other clients, steal confident

Description

A flaw was found in the Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) component of Keycloak, an identity and access management solution. The default DCR policy fails to properly validate the claim path for User Property mappers, allowing them to write values to sensitive internal claim locations. An attacker with a standard user account and a limited Initial Access Token can exploit this to forge administrative roles in their access token. This allows the attacker to take over other clients, steal confidential secrets, and potentially gain full administrative control over the realm.

CVSS Score
8.1
High
EPSS Score
0.3
Exploit Probability
Published Date
2026-08-05
First Seen: 2026-08-06
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is High Risk - more severe than 76.8% of all 348,756 vulnerabilities in our database.

#80,740
Top 25% most severe
Severity Percentile
🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Aug 5, 2026
🔍 Exploitation Status
None
No known exploits
⚙️ Automatable
NO
Requires human interaction
💥 Technical Impact
Total
Complete system compromise possible
🏆 Discovered By
Red Hat would like to thank yd1ng for reporting this issue.
SSVC data provided by CISA
Last Modified 2026-08-21
Source NVD 🔗
CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

📦 Affected Products 5

🔗 References 6

🔗 Related CVEs 6

CVE ID Severity CVSS EPSS Summary Published
CVE-2026-18967 🔶 medium 6.4 0.1 A flaw was found in the SAML broker component of Keycloak, an identity and access management solution. When configured a... 2026-08-06
CVE-2026-15573 ⚠️ high 8.1 0.3 A flaw was found in Keycloak's Authorization Services. The component responsible for matching request paths to security ... 2026-08-05
CVE-2026-16443 ⚠️ high 7.4 0.2 A flaw was found in the SAML metadata import functionality of the keycloak-services component, which is the core engine ... 2026-08-05
CVE-2026-16071 🔶 medium 5.4 0.2 A flaw was found in the LDAP storage provider of Keycloak, which is used to federate user identities from external direc... 2026-08-05
CVE-2026-16100 🔶 medium 6.5 0.3 A flaw was found in the user-event metrics recording of Keycloak. When metrics are enabled, the system records raw error... 2026-08-05
CVE-2026-15572 ⚠️ high 8.8 0.4 A flaw was found in Keycloak's Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) security policy management. The "Allowed Protocol Mappe... 2026-08-05
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