CVE-2022-0225: redhat keycloak
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-0225 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability in redhat keycloak. EPSS estimates a 3.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Not severe (CVSS 5.4, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 5Timeline
- 26-08-2022PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 02-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A flaw was found in Keycloak. This flaw allows a privileged attacker to use the malicious payload as the group name while creating a new group from the admin console, leading to a stored Cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.
CVSS metrics
2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version- OSV · MavenEcosystem advisory · calculated5.4MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
3.20%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
88%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.07 pp
From 3.13% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (bugzilla.redhat.com)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, low-privilege account, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Redhat2 products
Org.keycloak1 product
- keycloak-core< 20.0.0 | ≤ 16.1.0
2 vendors · 3 products
References
4 links- github.com/keycloak/keycloakPACKAGE
