A vulnerability classified as critical was found in keycloack up to 7.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Reset Password Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use of hard-coded, security-relevant constants vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-547. The product uses hard-coded constants instead of symbolic names for security-critical values, which increases the likelihood of mistakes during code maintenance or security policy change. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in keycloack before version 8.0.0. The owner of 'placeholder.org' domain can setup mail server on this domain and knowing only name of a client can reset password and then log in. For example, for client name 'test' the email address will be 'service-account-test@placeholder.org'.

The weakness was published 01/07/2020 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-14837 since 08/10/2019. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1600.001 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 8.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

Similar entries are available at VDB-111868, VDB-177901, VDB-188033 and VDB-192664.

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