Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1025

Comparison Using Wrong Factors

The code performs a comparison between two entities, but the comparison examines the wrong factors or characteristics of the entities, which can lead to incorrect results and resultant weaknesses.

CVE-2026-9800 (GCVE-0-2026-9800)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 16:16 – Updated: 2026-07-02 12:04
VLAI
Title
Keycloak-policy-enforcer: keycloak policy enforcer: authorization bypass via incorrect uri comparison
Summary
A flaw was found in Keycloak Policy Enforcer. This vulnerability allows any authenticated user to bypass all authorization policies, including role, scope, and User-Managed Access (UMA) permission checks. By including the configured access-denied page path within a request URL, either as a path segment or a query parameter, an attacker can gain unauthorized access to protected resources.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-1025 - Comparison Using Wrong Factors
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 Unaffected: 26.4.13-1 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.4::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 Unaffected: 26.4-19 , < * (rpm)
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Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.13     cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.4::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6 Unaffected: 26.6.4-2 , < * (rpm)
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Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6 Unaffected: 26.6-8 , < * (rpm)
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Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.4     cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.6::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat build of Quarkus     cpe:/a:redhat:quarkus:3
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Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack     cpe:/a:redhat:jbosseapxp
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Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6     cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6
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Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7     cpe:/a:redhat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7
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Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4     cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.4::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6     cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.6::el9
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Date Public
2026-05-19 00:00
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Bas Levering for reporting this issue.
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