Keycloak: session takeover with oidc offline refreshtokens
A flaw was found in the offline_access scope in Keycloak. This issue would affect users of shared computers more (especially if cookies are not cleared), due to a lack of root session validation, and the reuse of session ids across root and user authentication sessions. This enables an attacker to resolve a user session attached to a previously authenticated user; when utilizing the refresh token, they will be issued a token for the original user.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2022-3916
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 02:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Keycloak: session takeover with oidc offline refreshtokens
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 20 Sept 2023, 14:28 UTC
A flaw was found in the offline_access scope in Keycloak. This issue would affect users of shared computers more (especially if cookies are not cleared), due to a lack of root session validation, and the reuse of session ids across root and user authentication sessions. This enables an attacker to resolve a user session attached to a previously authenticated user; when utilizing the refresh token, they will be issued a token for the original user.
osv:CVE-2022-3916
Complete source record
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