CVE-2025-7784Org.keycloak/keycloak-services: privilege escalation in keycloak admin console (fgapv2 enabled)
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.45%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 60% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was found in the Keycloak identity and access management system when Fine-Grained Admin Permissions(FGAPv2) are enabled. An administrative user with the manage-users role can escalate their privileges to realm-admin due to improper privilege enforcement. This vulnerability allows unauthorized elevation of access rights, compromising the intended separation of administrative duties and posing a security risk to the realm.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
Published
- 10 months later
· 10 months 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) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 60% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
keycloak
- affected < 26.2.6
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.2
- unaffected 26.2.6-1 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.2
- unaffected 26.2-6 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.2
- unaffected 26.2-6 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
All versions: unaffected
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.keycloak:keycloak-servicesGHSA-27gp-8389-hm4w (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
References
References5
- RHSA-2025:12015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2025:12016 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7784 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2381861 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/39956 (opens in a new tab)
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-2025-21879 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-27gp-8389-hm4w (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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