Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-20262
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2021-20262
Complete source record
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