CVE-2026-9798Keycloak: keycloak: brute-force protection bypass in ciba flow
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It affects Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 and 1 other product. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.
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A flaw was found in Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution. When a user account is temporarily locked due to repeated failed login attempts, an attacker with valid client credentials can exploit the Client-Initiated Backchannel Authentication (CIBA) flow to bypass this brute-force protection. This allows continued authentication attempts and token issuance even when the account should be locked, potentially enabling further unauthorized access attempts.
- CVSS
- 4.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-305
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- redhat
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Aug 19, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 redhat:build_keycloak | from 26.4.14-1 not affected | CNA record |
redhat build_of_keycloak redhat:build_of_keycloak | all versions | NVD |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50846vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50847vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50848vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50849vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-9798vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat, mitigation, vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482470issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat, vendor-advisory
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