CVE-2026-15572 PUBLISHED

Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: dcr protocol mapper type-swap policy bypass allows privilege escalation

Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 13.07.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 05.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Build of Keycloak
Versions Default: affected

Credits

  • Red Hat would like to thank Arthur Chan (Ada Logics) for reporting this issue.

References

Problem Types

  • Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') CWE