A flaw was found in Keycloak's Fine-Grained Admin Permissions (FGAPv2) feature. An administrator with limited client management permissions can exploit this vulnerability to assign any realm role, including highly privileged roles, to a client's scope mapping. This bypasses intended security controls, allowing the injected role to be projected into a user's authentication token when they access the modified client. This could lead to unauthorized privilege escalation within the Keycloak realm.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-32h4-44jj-c5vx Keycloak has privilege escalation via improper scope mapping enforcement
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

To mitigate this issue, disable the Fine-Grained Admin Permissions (FGAPv2) feature in Keycloak if it is not strictly required. This can typically be done by setting `adminPermissionsEnabled` to `false` in the realm configuration. Disabling FGAPv2 will prevent the exploitation of this flaw by removing the vulnerable functionality. However, this may impact administrative delegation capabilities within Keycloak. A restart or reload of the Keycloak service may be required for the changes to take effect.

History

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:45:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.4::el9
References

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak: cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.6::el9
References

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:45:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:redhat:build_of_keycloak:-:*:*:*:-:*:*:*

Thu, 28 May 2026 14:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Metrics threat_severity

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threat_severity

Important


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First Time appeared Redhat build Of Keycloak
Vendors & Products Redhat build Of Keycloak

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Description A flaw was found in Keycloak's Fine-Grained Admin Permissions (FGAPv2) feature. An administrator with limited client management permissions can exploit this vulnerability to assign any realm role, including highly privileged roles, to a client's scope mapping. This bypasses intended security controls, allowing the injected role to be projected into a user's authentication token when they access the modified client. This could lead to unauthorized privilege escalation within the Keycloak realm.
Title Keycloak: keycloak: privilege escalation via improper scope mapping enforcement
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat build Keycloak
Weaknesses CWE-266
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat build Keycloak
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-15T00:38:31.100Z

Reserved: 2026-05-28T03:16:18.721Z

Link: CVE-2026-9795

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-15T00:38:31.100Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2026-05-28T05:16:41.003

Modified: 2026-07-15T01:17:10.520

Link: CVE-2026-9795

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-05-28T03:16:49Z

Links: CVE-2026-9795 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-28T07:15:11Z

Weaknesses