Cross-site scripting in Keycloak - CVE-2022-1274

 

Cross-site scripting in Keycloak - CVE-2022-1274

Published: March 2, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU72722
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1274
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote user to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in Keyckloak Admin REST API. A remote user attacker can inject and execute arbitrary HTML code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

Keycloak
Red Hat Single Sign-On
rh-sso7-keycloak (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2022-1274

Install updates from vendor's website.

Keycloak - update to 20.0.5
Red Hat Single Sign-On - update to 7.6.2
rh-sso7-keycloak (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso, 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso, 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso

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