Keycloak: keycloak: brute-force protection bypass in ciba flow
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.3epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 60% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution. When a user account is temporarily locked due to repeated failed login attempts, an attacker with valid client credentials can exploit the Client-Initiated Backchannel Authentication (CIBA) flow to bypass this brute-force protection. This allows continued authentication attempts and token issuance even when the account should be locked, potentially enabling further unauthorized access attempts.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.14Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6Red Hat · Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.5References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50846https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50847https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50848https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50849https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-9798https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482470