A flaw was found in Keycloak. A missing authorization check in the GroupResource.addChild() endpoint within the Admin REST API allows an authenticated user with limited administrative privileges to reparent any existing group. When Fine-Grained Admin Permissions v2 (FGAPv2) is enabled, an attacker with management rights over a single low-privilege group can reparent a highly privileged group (such as one possessing the realm-admin role) under their managed group.
Because group permissions follow a hierarchical structure, this action unauthorizedly grants the attacker management and password-reset capabilities over the members of the targeted privileged group. An attacker can exploit this to reset an administrator's password, compromise the account, and achieve a full realm takeover, leading to a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
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Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.6::el9 | |
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| Description | A flaw was found in Keycloak. A missing authorization check in the GroupResource.addChild() endpoint within the Admin REST API allows an authenticated user with limited administrative privileges to reparent any existing group. When Fine-Grained Admin Permissions v2 (FGAPv2) is enabled, an attacker with management rights over a single low-privilege group can reparent a highly privileged group (such as one possessing the realm-admin role) under their managed group. Because group permissions follow a hierarchical structure, this action unauthorizedly grants the attacker management and password-reset capabilities over the members of the targeted privileged group. An attacker can exploit this to reset an administrator's password, compromise the account, and achieve a full realm takeover, leading to a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. | |
| Title | Keycloak: group-admin escalation to realm-admin | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat build Keycloak |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-639 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak: | |
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Redhat
Redhat build Keycloak |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-06-25T20:26:06.600Z
Reserved: 2026-05-20T15:12:25.740Z
Link: CVE-2026-9099
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Updated: 2026-06-25T18:15:04Z