CVE-2026-14781

Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: oidc email_verified claim incorrectly applied to userinfo email

State
Published
Severity
4.8 Medium
Published
Jul 5, 2026
Updated
Jul 6, 2026
Reserved
Jul 5, 2026

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Description

A flaw exists in the org.keycloak.broker.oidc package where the OIDC broker incorrectly synchronizes the email_verified claim. When an OIDC identity provider is configured with trustEmail=true and the userinfo endpoint is enabled, Keycloak retrieves the email address from the userinfo response but retrieves the email_verified status exclusively from the id_token. The root cause is a lack of validation ensuring that the email_verified claim in the id_token actually refers to the email address returned by the userinfo endpoint. If these two sources return different email addresses, the id_token's email_verified=true claim is blindly applied to the userinfo email. Exploitation Conditions: The OIDC identity provider must have trustEmail set to true (non-default).

The userinfo endpoint must be enabled (default).

The attacker must control or have compromised the upstream OIDC provider.

Concrete Impact: Mark arbitrary email addresses as verified in the Keycloak database.

Bypass email-based security controls or verification workflows.

Potential account takeover if the application relies solely on the email_verified flag from the IdP to link accounts.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.8 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nredhat

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1288 Improper Validation of Consistency within Input

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Red Hat Build of KeycloakRed Hat
    Red Hat Build of KeycloakRed Hat
      Red Hat Build of KeycloakRed Hat
        Red Hat Data Grid 8Red Hat
          Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion PackRed Hat
            Red Hat Single Sign-On 7Red Hat

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