CVE-2019-14837
A flaw was found in keycloack before version 8.0.0. The owner of 'placeholder.org' domain can setup mail server on this domain and knowing…
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was found in keycloack before version 8.0.0. The owner of 'placeholder.org' domain can setup mail server on this domain and knowing only name of a client can reset password and then log in. For example, for client name 'test' the email address will be '[email protected]'.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.keycloak:keycloak-coreGHSA-cf8f-w2c5-p5jr (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14837 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-10780 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/commit/9a7c1a91a59ab85e7f8889a505be04a71580777f (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-2022-3567 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-cf8f-w2c5-p5jr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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