High
Security advisory
It was found that the keycloak before 2.3.0 did not implement authentication flow correctly. An attacker could use this flaw to construct a phishing URL, from which he could hijack the user's session. This could lead to information disclosure, or permit further possible attacks.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-8609
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
It was found that the keycloak before 2.3.0 did not implement authentication flow correctly. An attacker could use this flaw to construct a phishing URL, from which he could hijack the user's session. This could lead to information disclosure, or permit further possible attacks.
osv:CVE-2016-8609
Complete source record
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