Critical severity · published Jan 7, 2020
CVE-2019-14837
A flaw was found in keycloack before version 8.0.0
9.1
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in keycloack before version 8.0.0. The owner of 'placeholder.org' domain can setup mail server on this domain and knowing only name of a client can reset password and then log in. For example, for client name 'test' the email address will be 'service-account-test@placeholder.org'.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 77% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Keycloak · Redhat
before 8.0.0 · source: NVD
SS
Single Sign-on · Redhat
7.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14837
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14837
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14837
Patch
https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/commit/9a7c1a91a59ab85e7f8889a505be04a71580777f
Issue Tracking
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-10780
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