Keycloak
26.5.3SecurityKeycloak 26.5.3 is a maintenance release with security fixes alongside ordinary bug corrections. Its relevance is concentrated in deployments that use the affected authentication, registration, or UMA policy paths.
Check if affected (4)
securityhighCVE-2026-1609, token issuance for disabled users
Applies if you use the JWT Authorization Grant with disabled users.
Keycloak 26.5.3 fixes an issue in which disabled users could still obtain tokens through the JWT Authorization Grant.
securityhighCVE-2026-1529, cross-organization self-registration through forged invitation JWTs
Applies if you use invitation JWTs for cross-organization self-registration.
Keycloak 26.5.3 fixes an issue where a forged invitation JWT could enable cross-organization self-registration.
securityhighCVE-2026-1486, authentication through disabled identity providers
Applies if you use the JWT Authorization Grant with identity providers that can be disabled.
Keycloak 26.5.3 fixes a logic bypass in the JWT Authorization Grant that allowed authentication through disabled identity providers.
securitymediumCVE-2025-14778,
/uma-policy/ownership checksApplies if you use the
/uma-policy/endpoint.Keycloak 26.5.3 fixes incorrect ownership checks in the
/uma-policy/endpoint.
All 3 other recorded changesfixes 2 · removals 1
fixes (2)
- <li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/45459">#45459</a> k8s multiple restart (oomkilled) in v26.5.0-0 during startup because of RAM <code>dist/quarkus</code></li>
- <li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/45677">#45677</a> Hibernate Validator is enabled by default when not used <code>dist/quarkus</code></li>
removals (1)
- <li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/45780">#45780</a> Remove fatal log messages from
ConsistentHash</li>
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