High
Security advisory
A flaw was found in Keycloak in versions from 12.0.0 and before 15.1.1 which allows an attacker with any existing user account to create new default user accounts via the administrative REST API even when new user registration is disabled.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-4133
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in Keycloak in versions from 12.0.0 and before 15.1.1 which allows an attacker with any existing user account to create new default user accounts via the administrative REST API even when new user registration is disabled.
osv:CVE-2021-4133
Complete source record
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