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CVE-2019-3868 (GCVE-0-2019-3868)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-04-24 15:21 – Updated: 2024-08-04 19:19
VLAI
Summary
Keycloak up to version 6.0.0 allows the end user token (access or id token JWT) to be used as the session cookie for browser sessions for OIDC. As a result an attacker with access to service provider backend could hijack user’s browser session.
Severity
3.8 (Low)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108061 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1140 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2998 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat keycloak Affected: affects up to 6.0.0 version
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