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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2026-14781 EUVD-2026-41732GHSA-c96p-56gh-3pvw

Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: oidc email_verified claim incorrectly applied to userinfo email

Published Jul 5, 2026 · Updated Jul 6, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A flaw exists in the org.keycloak.broker.oidc package where the OIDC broker incorrectly synchronizes the email_verified claim. When an OIDC identity provider is configured with trustEmail=true and the userinfo endpoint is enabled, Keycloak retrieves the email address from the userinfo response but retrieves the email_verified status exclusively from the id_token.
The root cause is a lack of validation ensuring that the email_verified claim in the id_token actually refers to the email address returned by the userinfo endpoint. If these two sources return different email addresses, the id_token's email_verified=true claim is blindly applied to the userinfo email.
Exploitation Conditions:
The OIDC identity provider must have trustEmail set to true (non-default).

The userinfo endpoint must be enabled (default).

The attacker must control or have compromised the upstream OIDC provider.

Concrete Impact:
Mark arbitrary email addresses as verified in the Keycloak database.

Bypass email-based security controls or verification workflows.

Potential account takeover if the application relies solely on the email_verified flag from the IdP to link accounts.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat Build of Keycloak — —
Red Hat Red Hat Data Grid 8 — —
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack — —
Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 — —

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