security
Articles about security from the Skycloak team.
Device Code Phishing and Passkey Lures: Harden Keycloak Against AiTM
Microsoft's September 2026 report shows passkey-themed lures driving AiTM and device-code attacks. Here is the Keycloak realm hardening that answers…
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CVE-2026-17048: Keycloak’s Admin REST API Can Hand Back a Vault-Resolved Client Secret
CVE-2026-17048 lets a view-only Keycloak admin read the plaintext of a vault-backed rotated client secret. CVSS 5.5, fixed in 26.7.2…
9 min read
CVE-2026-82968: Hardening Keycloak First-Broker Login While the Fix Is Pending
CVE-2026-82968 lets an attacker on the same social provider intercept Keycloak account linking. CVSS 6.4, no patched release yet. What…
8 min read
CVE-2026-18963: The Keycloak Password Reset Takeover, and Which Versions Fix It
CVE-2026-18963 lets an unauthenticated attacker take over any Keycloak account through the reset-credentials flow. CVSS 9.1. Three release lines carry…
10 min read
CVE-2026-88770: Keycloak’s Device Flow Can Still Issue Tokens for a Locked Account
CVE-2026-88770 lets Keycloak's device authorization grant redeem tokens for an account brute-force protection already locked. CVSS 6.5, no patch yet.
8 min read
Keycloak 26.7.3 Security Fixes: A Self-Hosted Patch Checklist
Keycloak 26.7.3 fixes twenty CVEs across FGAP v2, OIDC and token exchange. What to re-test after you upgrade, and which…
9 min read
Keycloak LDAP Certificate Validation: What CVE-2026-35563 Actually Affects
CVE-2026-35563 is scoped to a Keycloak test dependency, not LDAP user federation. Here is what really governs LDAP certificate validation…
7 min read
CVE-2026-16072 and CVE-2026-18201: Two Keycloak Organization Permission Gaps
Two moderate Keycloak CVEs let admins act outside their permissions on organizations. What they allow, who is affected, and what…
7 min read
SPIFFE/SPIRE Workload Identity: What a Compromised Node Actually Breaks
Unit 42 showed a root-compromised Kubernetes node can spoof SPIFFE/SPIRE workload identities via cgroup tricks. Here is what actually breaks,…
11 min read
Loi 25 et PIPEDA : ce que la conformité exige de votre système d’identité
Ce que la Loi 25 et la LPRPDE exigent de votre gestion des identités, où vos données doivent résider, et…
9 min read
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