01 Record
CVE-2016-8609
It was found that the keycloak before 2.3.0 did not implement authentication flow correctly. An attacker could use this flaw to construct a phishing URL, from which he could hijack the user's session.
LowPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base score3.7 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
02 Description
It was found that the keycloak before 2.3.0 did not implement authentication flow correctly. An attacker could use this flaw to construct a phishing URL, from which he could hijack the user's session.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.67% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 76.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-08-01 17:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 02:27Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-10-12
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Low (CVSS 3.7)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 735f9e645524afe663adb4c639c669b31a818512234f9ed509ef53bd63ba4590
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8609
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2945http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2945.html
- www.securitytracker.com1037460http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037460
- www.securityfocus.com95070http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95070