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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-18573 EUVD-2026-51927GHSA-wm3j-jpqg-fwv2

Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: client access-type policy condition bypass during client update

Published Aug 2, 2026 · Updated Sep 16, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A flaw was found in the keycloak-services component of Keycloak, which is used for managing authentication and authorization flows. The issue occurs when a realm administrator configures client policies to enforce specific authentication requirements on confidential clients. Due to improper evaluation of the client state during an update operation, an attacker with client management permissions can bypass these security policies by first creating a public client and then updating it to a confidential client with weaker authentication. This can result in the persistence of clients that do not comply with the intended security hardening of the realm.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6 — —
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.7 — —
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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