Advisory severityMedium4.9Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2024-11736] Org.keycloak:keycloak-quarkus-server: unrestricted admin use of system and environment variables

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2024-11736 affecting Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.0, RHBK 26.0.8.

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CVE-2024-11736 Source published Jan 14, 2025Source updated Jan 13, 2025

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CVE-2024-11736

Affected products & platforms

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Summary

A vulnerability was found in Keycloak. Admin users may have to access sensitive server environment variables and system properties through user-configurable URLs.

When configuring backchannel logout URLs or admin URLs, admin users can include placeholders like ${env.VARNAME} or ${PROPNAME}. The server replaces these placeholders with the actual values of environment variables or system properties during URL processing.

Red Hat has evaluated this vulnerability and it only affects Keycloak. This should not affect any connector or adapter.

Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 4.9 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N). Weakness: CWE-526.

Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.0; RHBK 26.0.8; Red Hat Build of Keycloak. Red Hat lists Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack as not affected.

Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Build of Keycloak. Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2025:0299, RHSA-2025:0300.

Affected versions

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Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 17 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions

rhbk/keycloak-operator-bundle:26.0.8-1
rhbk/keycloak-rhel9:26.0-7
rhbk/keycloak-rhel9-operator:26.0-8
RHSA-2025:0299
RHSA-2025:0300

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 17 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 17 days ago·verify at source

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