CVE-2017-12160
It was found that Keycloak oauth would permit an authenticated resource to obtain an access/refresh token pair from the authentication…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 20% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
It was found that Keycloak oauth would permit an authenticated resource to obtain an access/refresh token pair from the authentication server, permitting indefinite usage in the case of permission revocation. An attacker on an already compromised resource could use this flaw to grant himself continued permissions and possibly conduct further attacks.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
- affected 3.4.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.keycloak:keycloak-parentGHSA-qc72-gfvw-76h7 (opens in a new tab)
References
4
- RHSA-2017:2904 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2905 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2906 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484154 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-4944 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qc72-gfvw-76h7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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