🛡️ CVE-2026-45048 — openam-core

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-200 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OpenAM Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Raw Token Disclosure Session RPC

Summary

Description

An insufficient authorization (CWE-285) and information exposure (CWE-200) issue in OpenAM's session management endpoint allows a low-privileged authenticated user to retrieve active session credentials belonging to other users, including those with higher privileges. This affects OpenAM Community Edition through version 16.0.6 and was patched in version 16.1.1.

This may be related to CVE-2021-4201, a similar issue patched in ForgeRock Access Management, a separate product sharing a common codebase ancestry.

Impact

OpenAM Community Edition deployments through version 16.0.6 using stateful session storage and exposing the session management endpoint are potentially affected. The endpoint does not enforce ownership or privilege checks when querying session information, meaning an authenticated user may retrieve active session credentials for arbitrary users. Successful exploitation requires a valid low-privilege session and knowledge of a target user's identity identifier, which may be obtainable through normal platform functionality.

If credentials belonging to a highly privileged account are obtained, this could enable further administrative actions within the platform

Patch

This has been patched in OpenAM Community Edition version 16.1.1. Users are encouraged to update to the latest release.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level 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.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-45048 is classified as CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information. Information that should stay internal is disclosed to someone who is not authorised to see it.

Affected software

CVE-2026-45048 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.openidentityplatform.openam:openam-core (fixed in 16.1.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 23 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-200
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-06-23
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.openidentityplatform.openam:openam-core — 16.1.1

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