A flaw was found in Keycloak. This access control vulnerability in Keycloak's OpenID Connect (OIDC) token introspection endpoint allows a confidential client to bypass audience restrictions. An attacker-controlled client with valid credentials can retrieve sensitive token claims intended for other resource servers, compromising the confidentiality of lightweight access tokens. This issue can be exploited remotely by any confidential client in the realm with valid credentials.
CVE-2026-37979
Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-05-19. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
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- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 28.7%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 19, 2026
Last Modified
June 3, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Jun 13, 20262455328 – (CVE-2026-37979) CVE-2026-37979 keycloak: Keycloak: Information disclosure via OIDC token introspection endpoint audience bypass
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455328Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-37979(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:19597Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.12 Images Security Update
- RHSA-2026:19596Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.12 Security Update
- GHSA-4x37-hw65-52w8GitHub Security AdvisoriesMedium
Keycloak: Information disclosure via OIDC token introspection endpoint audience bypass
Patch Availability(2)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | rhbk/keycloak-rhel9-operator:26.4-17 | 2026-05-20 | redhat |
| redhat | rhbk/keycloak-rhel9 | 2026-05-20 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| org.keycloak:keycloak-services | 1.0-alpha-1 ... 9.0.3 (226 versions) | 26.6.2 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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