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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-1697

It was found in all keycloak versions before 9.0.0 that links to external applications (Application Links) in the admin console are not validated properly and could allow Stored XSS attacks. An authed malicious user could create URLs to trick users in other realms, and possibly conduct further attacks.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:18 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-1697

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Feb 2020, 15:15 UTC

It was found in all keycloak versions before 9.0.0 that links to external applications (Application Links) in the admin console are not validated properly and could allow Stored XSS attacks. An authed malicious user could create URLs to trick users in other realms, and possibly conduct further attacks.

osv:CVE-2020-1697
Complete source record
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  "id": "470e7fa4ea7e79c519c99e74e5c70a9ec33c65a9f66e6c8c1fe8eb4d83b10f79",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1697",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-1697",
    "summary": "It was found in all keycloak versions before 9.0.0 that links to external applications (Application Links) in the admin console are not validated properly and could allow Stored XSS attacks. An authed malicious user could create URLs to trick users in other realms, and possibly conduct further attacks.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-1697",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-1697",
        "GHSA-8vf3-4w62-m3pq"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "0e2d63fceb20b276cd7f7cfc5a09ecb8c44a14d2"
                }
              ],
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                    "range": [
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                      },
                      {
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                      }
                    ],
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                  }
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          "versions": [
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            "1.1.0.Beta2",
            "1.0.0.Final",
            "1.0-final",
            "1.0-rc-1",
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            "1.0-beta-2",
            "1.0-beta-1",
            "1.0-alpha-3",
            "1.0-alpha-2",
            "1.0-alpha-1",
            "1.0-alpha-1-12062013"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:51.480972305Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1697"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:single_sign-on",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.3"
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                  {
                    "last_affected": "7.3"
                  }
                ],
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              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-1697",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 437487,
  "published_at": "2020-02-10T15:15:21.497+00:00"
}