Bug 2238588 (CVE-2023-4918)

Summary: CVE-2023-4918 keycloak: Plaintext Storage of User Password
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Patrick Del Bello <pdelbell>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: boliveir, chazlett, drichtar, pdrozd, pjindal, pskopek, rowaters, security-response-team, sthorger
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A flaw was found in the Keycloak package, more specifically org.keycloak.userprofile. When a user registers itself through registration flow, the "password" and "password-confirm" field from the form will occur as regular user attributes. All users and clients with proper rights and roles are able to read users attributes, allowing a malicious user with minimal access to retrieve the users passwords in clear text, jeopardizing their environment.
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Description Patrick Del Bello 2023-09-12 15:19:30 UTC 
A flaw was discovered in Keycloak Core package.  When a user registers itself through registration flow, the "password" and "password-confirm" field from the form will occur as regular attributes in the users attributes. The password is also created, but the user attributes must not be there. This way, any entities (all users and clients with proper rights/roles) are able to retrieve the users passwords in clear-text. 

A malicious user with minimal access reading other users attributes could have access to their password and hence jeopardize the environment. 

This shall only affect Keycloak 22.0.2. While Keycloak 22.0.1 is not affected.
Comment 1 Patrick Del Bello 2023-09-12 15:22:39 UTC 
https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/security/advisories/GHSA-5q66-v53q-pm35