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Severity
9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A vulnerability was found in keycloak 7.x, when keycloak is configured with LDAP user federation and StartTLS is used instead of SSL/TLS from the LDAP server (ldaps), in this case user authentication succeeds even if invalid password has entered.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.3
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

A bug exists in Keycloak 7.x where the user federation LDAP bind type is "none" (LDAP anonymous bind), any password, invalid or valid will be accepted

Mitigation: If the LDAP service supports "simple" use that method instead

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Remedy

Use bindType:Simple
First published (updated )

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