Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-97175 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-97175 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-97175?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.8, published 5 November 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Red Hat Keycloak.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-97175?
- 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-2026-97175 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-97175?
- 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 idp-auto-link authenticator in keycloak-services fails to check the email_verified claim before linking a federated identity to an existing local account (CWE-287: Improper Authentication). An attacker with Low privileges (an account at a brokered identity provider) can exploit this over the network without user interaction to achieve account takeover, gaining full read/write access to the victim's account.
Affected products
- Red Hat Keycloak
Timeline
- 2026-11-05: disclosed