Bug 2459993 (CVE-2026-11577)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-11577 keycloak: keycloak: privilege escalation via partialImport FGAP permission bypass | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability-draft | Assignee: | Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | anujha, aschwart, asoldano, aszczucz, bbaranow, bmaxwell, boliveir, bstansbe, dlofthou, drichtar, istudens, ivassile, iweiss, mosmerov, mposolda, msvehla, nwallace, pberan, pesilva, pjindal, pmackay, rmartinc, rstancel, security-response-team, smaestri, ssilvert, sthorger, thjenkin, vdosoudi, vmuzikar |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in Keycloak. A limited administrator can exploit an improper access control vulnerability in the POST /admin/realms/{realm}/partialImport endpoint. This allows them to bypass Fine-Grained Admin Permissions (FGAP) and escalate their privileges to a full realm administrator by importing users with realm-admin role mappings.
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| Deadline: | 2026-07-18 | ||
This CVE is rejected because : The reported behavior does not constitute a privilege escalation. Exploitation requires the attacker to already possess the manage-realm administrative role within the realm-management client. By design, the manage-realm role is intended to be equivalent in administrative authority to realm-admin. A user with manage-realm already has full administrative control over the realm. Therefore, importing users with realm-admin role mappings through POST /admin/realms/{realm}/partialImport does not grant any additional privileges beyond those already held by the administrator and does not represent a security vulnerability.
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Privilege escalation in Keycloak via POST /admin/realms/{realm}/partialImport. The endpoint bypasses Fine-Grained Admin Permissions (FGAP) -- it only checks requireManageRealm() but not per-resource-type permissions. A limited admin with only manage-realm can escalate to full realm admin by importing users with realm-admin role mappings. Verified on Keycloak 26.6.1. Related: GitHub issue #9387 describes this as hardening, but it is an exploitable privilege escalation.