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CVE-2021-20195

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-20195 describes a critical self-stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Red Hat Keycloak versions prior to 13.0.0. This flaw allows an attacker to achieve complete account takeover due to improper encoding of user-supplied data processed by JavaScript. With a CVSS score of 9.6 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability poses a high threat to data confidentiality, integrity, and system availability, requiring user interaction but no prior authentication. Despite its severity, there is currently no public exploit code available, nor is it listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and it has received no significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 12.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:keycloak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.6CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0125 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 834 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.8 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.keycloak:keycloak-coreFixed in: 13.0.0
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-q6w2-89hq-hq27critical

keycloak Self Stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Jun 8, 2021
redhatCVE-2021-20195Important

keycloak: The Account console allows stored self-XSS via impersonation mechanism

Feb 16, 2021

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory