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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.4

CVE-2022-1438 json

Keycloak: xss on impersonation under specific circumstances

published 2023-03-01 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-w354-2f3c-qvg9 , EUVD-2023-1124

cvss
6.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 51%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in Keycloak. Under specific circumstances, HTML entities are not sanitized during user impersonation, resulting in a Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 7 0:18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso
  • Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 8 0:18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso
  • Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 9 0:18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso
  • Red Hat RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers 7.6-20
  • rh-sso7-keycloak red hat single sign on 7.6 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso
  • rh-sso7-keycloak-server red hat single sign on 7.6 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso
  • rh-sso7-keycloak red hat single sign on 7.6 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso
  • rh-sso7-keycloak-server red hat single sign on 7.6 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso
  • rh-sso7-keycloak red hat single sign on 7.6 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso
  • rh-sso7-keycloak-server red hat single sign on 7.6 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:1043RHSA-2023:1044RHSA-2023:1045

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-1438 updated cvss 6.4

keycloak: XSS on impersonation under specific circumstances

  • Red Hat Middleware Containers for OpenShift rh-sso-7/sso76-openshift-rhel8 7.6-20
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1047
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1049
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 7 Server rh-sso7-keycloak 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso, rh-sso7-keycloak-server 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1043
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 8 rh-sso7-keycloak 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso, rh-sso7-keycloak-server 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1044
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 9 rh-sso7-keycloak 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso, rh-sso7-keycloak-server 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1045

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.keycloak:keycloak-services
<=21.0.0
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.