REDHAT-BUG-2507409: High severity Keycloak Keycloak vulnerability

Published Jul 27, 2026
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Updated

A flaw was found in Keycloak. A user holding only the impersonation realm-management client role can impersonate any enabled, non-service-account user in the realm, including full realm administrators. The impersonation endpoint restricts service accounts as targets but performs no privilege-level check on the target user. After impersonating an administrator, the attacker obtains a valid SSO session and can exchange it for a fully signed access token via a standard OIDC authorization-code flow, gaining complete administrative control over the realm (read/write all users, clients, roles, password resets). The impersonation role is designed as a lesser delegation for support staff, and this flaw defeats that separation.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Keycloak Keycloak

Event History

Jul 27, 2026
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·08:40 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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