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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-20202

A flaw was found in keycloak. Directories can be created prior to the Java process creating them in the temporary directory, but with wider user permissions, allowing the attacker to have access to the contents that keycloak stores in this directory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:09 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-20202

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 May 2021, 15:15 UTC

A flaw was found in keycloak. Directories can be created prior to the Java process creating them in the temporary directory, but with wider user permissions, allowing the attacker to have access to the contents that keycloak stores in this directory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

osv:CVE-2021-20202
Complete source record
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