Red Hat Keycloak Environment Variable exposure of sensitive information through environmental variables

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Red Hat Keycloak and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Environment Variable Handler. The manipulation leads to an unknown weakness. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-11736. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Keycloak (the affected version unknown). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Environment Variable Handler. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-526. The product uses an environment variable to store unencrypted sensitive information. The impact remains unknown. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability was found in Keycloak. Admin users may have to access sensitive server environment variables and system properties through user-configurable URLs. When configuring backchannel logout URLs or admin URLs, admin users can include placeholders like ${env.VARNAME} or ${PROPNAME}. The server replaces these placeholders with the actual values of environment variables or system properties during URL processing.

The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-11736 since 11/26/2024. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/04/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592.002 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 214216 (Keycloak 26.0.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities (26_0_8)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (214216). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.2
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

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Class: Exposure of sensitive information through environmental variables
CWE: CWE-526 / CWE-200 / CWE-284
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 214216
Nessus Name: Keycloak 26.0.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities (26_0_8)

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

11/26/2024 🔍
01/13/2025 +48 days 🔍
01/13/2025 +0 days 🔍
08/04/2026 +568 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-11736 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-11736
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-291329

Entryinfo

Created: 01/13/2025 17:12
Updated: 08/04/2026 12:01
Changes: 01/13/2025 17:12 (48), 01/15/2025 22:16 (2), 08/04/2026 12:01 (18)
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Cache ID: 216::103

Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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