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CVE-2023-1664

A flaw was found in Keycloak. This flaw depends on a non-default configuration "Revalidate Client Certificate" to be ena

A flaw was found in Keycloak. This flaw depends on a non-default configuration "Revalidate Client Certificate" to be enabled and the reverse proxy is not validating the certificate before Keycloak. Using this method an attacker may choose the certificate which will be validated by the server.

If this happens and the KC_SPI_TRUSTSTORE_FILE_FILE variable is missing/misconfigured, any trustfile may be accepted with the logging information of "Cannot validate client certificate trust: Truststore not available". This may not impact availability as the attacker would have no access to the server, but consumer applications Integrity or Confidentiality may be impacted considering a possible access to them. Considering the environment is correctly set to use "Revalidate Client Certificate" this flaw is avoidable.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 0.00254
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  • SSVC automatable: yes - attacks can be scripted at scale
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

Weakness Classification

Affected Products & Versions

5

Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Maven org.keycloak:keycloak-core MODERATE fixed in 21.1.2

Scoring & Timeline

6.5
MEDIUM · CVSS v3.1 · secalert@redhat.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD26 May 2023 · 06:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC triage · cisa-vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
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Vendor Advisories

6
rhsaRHSA-2023:5491Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2023:3888Important
rhsaRHSA-2023:3883Important
rhsaRHSA-2023:3885Important
rhsaRHSA-2023:3884Important
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References & Sources

1
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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