CVE-2026-116468: Red Hat Keycloak missing authorization check in group reparenting

CVE-2026-116468 · Severity: medium · CVSS 6.6 · Published 2026-11-11

Red Hat Keycloak is an authentication and identity management system used to control access to enterprise applications. A flaw in its group management endpoints allows a delegated administrator to move groups under an administrative group, causing all members to inherit full administrator privileges and gain complete control over the entire realm, including all users and security configurations.

Technologies: Red Hat Keycloak. Vendors: Red Hat.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-116468 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-116468 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-116468?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.6, published 11 November 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
Red Hat Keycloak.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-116468?
No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
How is CVE-2026-116468 attacked?
It is attacked over the network, in a hosted service.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-116468?
Check whether you run Red Hat Keycloak. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

Technical details

The vulnerability is a missing authorization check (CWE-862) in the group-move and organization group reparenting endpoints of keycloak-services. A delegated administrator can exploit this by moving a group they control under an administrative parent group, causing all group members to inherit realm-admin privileges. The flaw represents an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-94000 and requires network access plus high privileges (delegated administrator role) to exploit.

Affected products

  • Red Hat Keycloak

Timeline

  • 2026-11-11: disclosed

References

This page as Markdown. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link back.