CVE-2026-9099Keycloak: group-admin escalation to realm-admin
- 7.7HighCVSS base score
- 0.49%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 57% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was found in Keycloak. A missing authorization check in the GroupResource.addChild() endpoint within the Admin REST API allows an authenticated user with limited administrative privileges to reparent any existing group. When Fine-Grained Admin Permissions v2 (FGAPv2) is enabled, an attacker with management rights over a single low-privilege group can reparent a highly privileged group (such as one possessing the realm-admin role) under their managed group. Because group permissions follow a hierarchical structure, this action unauthorizedly grants the attacker management and password-reset capabilities over the members of the targeted privileged group. An attacker can exploit this to reset an administrator's password, compromise the account, and achieve a full realm takeover, leading to a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 36 days later
· 36 days later
Published
- 20 days later
· 20 days 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 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| redhat-SADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.49% · top 57% of all CVEs (12 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: High 7.7.
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4
- unaffected 26.4.13-1 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4
- unaffected 26.4-19 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4
- unaffected 26.4-19 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.13
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6
- unaffected 26.6.4-2 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6
- unaffected 26.6-8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6
- unaffected 26.6-8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.4
All versions: unaffected
What to do
Workaround: To mitigate this issue, restrict network access to the Keycloak Admin REST API to only trusted networks or localhost. This limits the attack surface by preventing unauthorized access to the API endpoints required for exploitation. Consult your network security documentation for specific firewall or network access control configurations. This may impact remote administration capabilities.
References
References7
- RHSA-2026:30049 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2026:30050 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2026:30083 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2026:30084 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-9099 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2480182 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-9099.json (opens in a new tab)x_sadp-csaf-vex
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-2026-39472 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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