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🛡️ CVE-2022-4361 — keycloak

🔴 CVSS 10.0 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-81 NVD
10.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Keycloak vulnerable to cross-site scripting when validating URI-schemes on SAML and OIDC

AssertionConsumerServiceURL is a Java implementation for SAML Service Providers (org.keycloak.protocol.saml). Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS).

AssertionConsumerServiceURL allows XSS when sending a crafted SAML XML request.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-4361 is classified as CWE-81: Improper Neutralization of Script in an Error Message Web Page. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to an error page.

Affected software

CVE-2022-4361 is recorded against 6 packages.

  • keycloak (fixed in 21.1.2)
  • openshift-container-platform
  • openshift-container-platform-for-ibm-linuxone
  • openshift-container-platform-for-power
  • org.keycloak:keycloak-services (fixed in 21.1.2)
  • single-sign-on

Timeline and source

Published on 7 July 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com
github.com
bugzilla.redhat.com
github.com

Other advisories for this package

keycloak has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-81: Improper Neutralization of Script in an Error Message Web Page) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 10.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-81
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-07-07
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
keycloak — 21.1.2
openshift-container-platform — —
openshift-container-platform-for-ibm-linuxone — —
openshift-container-platform-for-power — —
org.keycloak:keycloak-services — 21.1.2
single-sign-on — —

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