CVE-2021-20262: Red Hat Keycloak

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in Keycloak 12.0.0 where re-authentication does not occur while updating the password. This flaw allows an attacker to take over an account if they can obtain temporary, physical access to a user’s browser. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Affected products

  • Red Hat Keycloak: version 12.0.0 only
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On: version 7.0 only

Published 2021-03-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.