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Identity CVE · OAuth / OIDC / JWT

CVE-2025-14778Keycloak UMA policy privilege escalation

high
Product: KeycloakVendor: Red HatCWE-266Disclosed: 2025-12-03Status: PatchedProtocol deep diveNVD ↗

What broke

Keycloak's UMA (User-Managed Access) policy evaluation looked at the first resource and ignored the rest. A request that named an allowed resource first, then a denied one, passed. CWE-266. Red Hat patched.

Why it matters

UMA is how some teams do resource-level authorization in OAuth. Checking only the first item is the authorization equivalent of skip_auth_routes matching a prefix. Fine-grained access that is not fine.

What to do

  • Upgrade Keycloak.
  • If you built UMA policies, add a regression test that names two resources, one allowed and one denied, in both orders.

Sources

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