CVE-2026-16072

MEDIUMPre-NVD 4.94.9—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 4.9 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-17. a secondary CVSS source baseline 4.9; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — Patch released this week
4.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 4.9Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in the organization management component of Keycloak. A delegated administrator with permission to manage organizations can create an invitation for a non-existent email address and then retrieve the secret registration link directly through the application programming interface. By using this link, the administrator can create new user accounts and add them to the organization without having the required user management permissions or access to the invited email account. This allows an administrator to bypass security boundaries and add unauthorized members to an organization.

CVSS v3
4.9
EG Score
4.9(medium)
EG Risk
22(Track)
EG Risk 22/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity49% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
37%
KEV
Not listed

Published

July 17, 2026

Last Modified

September 16, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jul 17, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2501721 – (CVE-2026-16072) CVE-2026-16072 keycloak-services: keycloak-services: Organization invitation link exposure allows unauthorized member creation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2501721
redhat Patch Available

cve-details

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16072

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-16072(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhbk/keycloak-rhel9-operator:26.6-202026-09-16redhat
redhatrhbk-openshift-rhel9/rhbk-openshift-rhel92026-09-16redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

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Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

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Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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  1. 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescore
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-16072?
CVE-2026-16072 is a medium vulnerability published on July 17, 2026. A flaw was found in the organization management component of Keycloak. A delegated administrator with permission to manage organizations can create an invitation for a non-existent email address and then retrieve the secret registration link directly through the application programming interface.…
When was CVE-2026-16072 disclosed?
CVE-2026-16072 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 17, 2026, with the most recent update on September 16, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-16072 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-16072 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 63.0% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-16072?
CVE-2026-16072 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.9 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-16072?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-16072, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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