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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2026-08-25 11:41
Modified
2026-09-08 08:34
Summary
Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: dcr protocol mapper type-swap policy bypass allows privilege escalation
Details

A flaw was found in Keycloak's Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) security policy management. The "Allowed Protocol Mapper Types" policy, which restricts which types of data mappers a client can use, fails to re-validate the mapper type during a client update if the mapper's configuration remains unchanged. An attacker with client registration privileges can exploit this by first registering an allowed mapper type with a malicious configuration and then swapping it for a restricted, high-privilege mapper type (such as one that hardcodes administrative roles). This allows the attacker to gain full administrative access to the Keycloak realm.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "keycloak",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/keycloak"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "26.4.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "26.4.14"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "26.6.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "26.6.5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-15572"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:build_of_keycloak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:keycloak:keycloak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "A flaw was found in Keycloak\u0027s Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) security policy management. The \"Allowed Protocol Mapper Types\" policy, which restricts which types of data mappers a client can use, fails to re-validate the mapper type during a client update if the mapper\u0027s configuration remains unchanged. An attacker with client registration privileges can exploit this by first registering an allowed mapper type with a malicious configuration and then swapping it for a restricted, high-privilege mapper type (such as one that hardcodes administrative roles). This allows the attacker to gain full administrative access to the Keycloak realm.",
  "id": "BIT-keycloak-2026-15572",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2026-08-25T11:41:38.475Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50846"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50847"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50848"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50849"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15572"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499592"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-15572"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: dcr protocol mapper type-swap policy bypass allows privilege escalation"
}



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