Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2025-7365 is a Keycloak account-takeover phishing weakness in the first-login identity-provider flow. An authenticated attacker can cause a verification email to be sent to a victim without clearly showing the attacker’s email. If the victim clicks the link, the attacker may gain access to the victim’s account.
Executive priority
Treat as a priority identity-platform fix. The flaw can support account takeover, but requires attacker authentication and victim interaction. Patch affected Keycloak environments through vendor advisories and add user-awareness monitoring for suspicious verification emails.
Technical view
The flaw occurs during IdP login account merging and subsequent profile review. The attacker can change their email to match a victim’s, triggering a misleading verification email. Red Hat rates it High with CVSS 7.1: network exploitable, high complexity, low privileges, and required user interaction.
Likely exposure
Organizations using Keycloak or Red Hat build of Keycloak 26, especially 26.0 and 26.2 packages listed by Red Hat, should assess exposure. Risk is highest where external IdPs, first-login flows, account linking, and email verification are enabled.
Exploitation context
Sources do not show CISA KEV listing or confirmed active exploitation. Exploitation requires an authenticated attacker, a suitable IdP account-merge flow, and victim interaction with a verification email. The impact can include confidentiality, integrity, and availability loss for the victim account.
Researcher notes
Key evidence comes from Red Hat and CVE sources. The weakness is mapped to CWE-346. Public sources identify the attack path and affected Red Hat package versions, but this summary does not confirm exploit-in-the-wild activity or all upstream fixed versions.
Mitigation direction
- Apply the relevant Red Hat security advisories for affected Red Hat build of Keycloak packages.
- Check upstream Keycloak issue and pull request for vendor remediation status.
- Review vendor guidance before changing login, account-linking, or email-verification behavior.
- Warn helpdesk and users about unexpected Keycloak verification emails until remediated.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Keycloak and Red Hat build of Keycloak 26 deployments.
- Compare installed packages against Red Hat’s affected package list.
- Confirm applicable RHSA updates are installed where Red Hat packages are used.
- Review whether IdP first-login account linking and email verification are enabled.
- Monitor authentication logs for unusual account-linking or email-change events.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.1 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H1.25.9redhatVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
7.1HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Vulnerability timeline
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- Source timelineredhat
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- CVE reservedCVE Program
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- Source timelineredhat
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- CVE publishedCVE Program
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ADP provider summaries
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- RHSA-2025:11986CVE reference, redhat · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2025:11987CVE reference, redhat · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2025:12015CVE reference, redhat · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2025:12016CVE reference, redhat · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7365CVE reference, redhat · vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2378852CVE reference, redhat · issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/40446CVE reference, redhat
- https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/pull/40520CVE reference, redhat
Products and packages named in the record
CWE details
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