CVE-2026-96445

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.86.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 6.8 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-23. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
6.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.8Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

A flaw was found in the Conditional OTP authenticator of Keycloak, an identity and access management solution. The issue occurs when the system evaluates specific HTTP headers to determine if a one-time password (OTP) should be skipped, but fails to verify if those headers came from a trusted source. This could allow an attacker who already has a user's password to bypass the second-factor authentication by providing a specially crafted header in their request.

CVSS v3
6.8
EG Score
6.8(high)
EG Risk
31(Track)
EG Risk 31/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity68% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
14%
KEV
Not listed

Published

September 23, 2026

Last Modified

September 24, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Sep 23, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2539280 – (CVE-2026-96445) CVE-2026-96445 keycloak-services: keycloak-services: Conditional OTP skip-header policy evaluated against untrusted proxy headers

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539280
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-96445 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96445

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-96445(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 10× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-09-24 15:09 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-24 15:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-23 20:23 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-23 20:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-23 19:53 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-23 19:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-23 12:30 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-23 11:21 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-09-23 11:21 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-96445?
CVE-2026-96445 is a medium vulnerability published on September 23, 2026. A flaw was found in the Conditional OTP authenticator of Keycloak, an identity and access management solution. The issue occurs when the system evaluates specific HTTP headers to determine if a one-time password (OTP) should be skipped, but fails to verify if those headers came from a trusted…
When was CVE-2026-96445 disclosed?
CVE-2026-96445 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 23, 2026, with the most recent update on September 24, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-96445 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-96445 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 86.4% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-96445?
CVE-2026-96445 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-96445?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-96445, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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