CVE-2016-8629: Red Hat Keycloak

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Red Hat Keycloak before version 2.4.0 did not correctly check permissions when handling service account user deletion requests sent to the rest server. An attacker with service account authentication could use this flaw to bypass normal permissions and delete users in a separate realm.

Affected products

• Red Hat Keycloak: before 2.4.0 (fixed in 2.4.0)
• Red Hat Single Sign On: version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only

Published 2018-03-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.