Phishing via unvalidated error description rendering
Published Sep 5, 2025 · Updated Dec 19, 2025
Input injection in Keycloak before 26.2.9 and 26.3.0 through 26.3.3 allows remote attackers to display deceptive error text. The account and admin consoles render the error_description query value as trusted interface text without validating it against recognized errors. A victim must follow the crafted URL and trust the rendered message; HTML encoding prevents script execution, limiting impact to phishing.
Summary
What happened
Input injection in Keycloak before 26.2.9 and 26.3.0 through 26.3.3 allows remote attackers to display deceptive error text. The account and admin consoles render the error_description query value as trusted interface text without validating it against recognized errors. A victim must follow the crafted URL and trust the rendered message; HTML encoding prevents script execution, limiting impact to phishing.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-10044
- Published
- Sep 5, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 19, 2025
- Vendor
- 389 Directory Server
- Product
- Red Hat build of Keycloak
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1204.001, T1566.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Sep 5, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 19, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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