Medium
Security advisory
A flaw was found in keycloak in versions prior to 13.0.0. The client registration endpoint allows fetching information about PUBLIC clients (like client secret) without authentication which could be an issue if the same PUBLIC client changed to CONFIDENTIAL later. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-27838
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in keycloak in versions prior to 13.0.0. The client registration endpoint allows fetching information about PUBLIC clients (like client secret) without authentication which could be an issue if the same PUBLIC client changed to CONFIDENTIAL later. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
osv:CVE-2020-27838
Complete source record
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