SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2023-22492

CVE-2023-22492 — ZITADEL is a combination of Auth0 and Keycloak

ZITADEL is a combination of Auth0 and Keycloak. RefreshTokens is an OAuth 2.0 feature that allows applications to retrieve new access tokens and refresh the user's session without the need for interacting with a UI. RefreshTokens were not invalidated when a user was locked o

CVSS
5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.28% (top 48.90%)
CWE
CWE-613
Published
2023-01-11T19:42:50.505Z
Last modified
2025-03-10T21:30:41.038Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

ZITADEL is a combination of Auth0 and Keycloak. RefreshTokens is an OAuth 2.0 feature that allows applications to retrieve new access tokens and refresh the user's session without the need for interacting with a UI. RefreshTokens were not invalidated when a user was locked or deactivated. The deactivated or locked user was able to obtain a valid access token only through a refresh token grant…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
zitadelzitadel>= 2.17.0, < 2.17.3, >= 2.0.0, < 2.16.4

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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