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Vulnerability details: VCID-3ncm-zz6v-2ua2
Vulnerability ID VCID-3ncm-zz6v-2ua2
Aliases CVE-2019-14837
GHSA-cf8f-w2c5-p5jr
Summary keycloak vulnerable to unauthorized login via mail server setup A flaw was found in keycloack before version 8.0.0. The owner of 'placeholder.org' domain can setup mail server on this domain and knowing only name of a client can reset password and then log in. For example, for client name 'test' the email address will be 'service-account-test@placeholder.org'.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-547 Use of Hard-coded, Security-relevant Constants
CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3 9.1 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-14837.json
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
epss 0.01008 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
cvssv3.1 9.1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14837
generic_textual CRITICAL https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14837
cvssv3.1_qr CRITICAL https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cf8f-w2c5-p5jr
cvssv3.1 9.1 https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak
generic_textual CRITICAL https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak
cvssv3.1 9.1 https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/commit/9a7c1a91a59ab85e7f8889a505be04a71580777f
generic_textual CRITICAL https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/commit/9a7c1a91a59ab85e7f8889a505be04a71580777f
cvssv3.1 9.1 https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-10780
generic_textual CRITICAL https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-10780
cvssv3.1 9.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14837
generic_textual CRITICAL https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14837
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-14837.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-14837
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14837
https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak
https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/commit/9a7c1a91a59ab85e7f8889a505be04a71580777f
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-10780
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14837
1730227 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1730227
GHSA-cf8f-w2c5-p5jr https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cf8f-w2c5-p5jr
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-14837.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14837
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/commit/9a7c1a91a59ab85e7f8889a505be04a71580777f
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-10780
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14837
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.77001
EPSS Score 0.01008
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:08:24.949123+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-cf8f-w2c5-p5jr/GHSA-cf8f-w2c5-p5jr.json 38.0.0