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Keycloak vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 30, 2025

Package

maven org.keycloak:keycloak-core (Maven)

Affected versions

< 14.0.0

Patched versions

14.0.0

Description

keycloak accepts an expired certificate by the direct-grant authenticator because of missing time stamp validations. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

This issue was partially fixed in version 13.0.1 and more completely fixed in version 14.0.0.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 23, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 24, 2022
Reviewed Dec 5, 2022
Last updated Jun 30, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(29th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-35509

GHSA ID

GHSA-rpj2-w6fr-79hc

Source code

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