Keycloak URL Placeholder Abuse Exposes Server Env Vars
CVE-2024-11736 Published on January 14, 2025

Org.keycloak:keycloak-quarkus-server: unrestricted admin use of system and environment variables
A vulnerability was found in Keycloak. Admin users may have to access sensitive server environment variables and system properties through user-configurable URLs. When configuring backchannel logout URLs or admin URLs, admin users can include placeholders like ${env.VARNAME} or ${PROPNAME}. The server replaces these placeholders with the actual values of environment variables or system properties during URL processing.

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Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2024-11736 is exploitable with network access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
HIGH
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
NONE

Timeline

Reported to Red Hat.

Made public. 48 days later.

Weakness Type

Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Environmental Variables

Environmental variables may contain sensitive information about a remote server.


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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.02%
Percentile
5.10%

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