CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-86464

CriticalCVSS 9.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.35%

29th percentile - higher than 29% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the current development version of Eclipse aeriOS (no official release yet), the Identity Manager (IdM) deployment included insecure default configurations and credentials for security-sensitive services. The Helm chart exposed Keycloak and its PostgreSQL backing database through Kubernetes NodePort services by default, while Docker Compose exposed PostgreSQL on all network interfaces. The deployment included fixed default credentials for the Keycloak administrator and PostgreSQL user, plus predefined application users with known credentials.

Risk Assessment

An attacker able to reach the exposed services could use the published default credentials to gain administrative access to the Identity Manager or direct access to its database. This could allow unauthorized access to or modification of identity-management data (users, roles, client credentials, sessions, cryptographic material) and enable creation of privileged identities or tokens accepted by other aeriOS components.

Recommendation

Update to the version with fixes: random Keycloak administrator password by default, Keycloak and PostgreSQL credentials managed via Kubernetes Secrets, and PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP restricted to internal services in both Helm chart and Docker Compose. Remove predefined development/testing users or change their credentials after installation and do not use them in production.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

In the current development version of Eclipse aeriOS, for which no official release has yet been published, the Identity Manager (IdM) deployment included insecure default configurations and credentials for security-sensitive services. The Helm chart exposed the Keycloak service and its PostgreSQL backing database through Kubernetes NodePort services by default, while the Docker Compose deployment similarly exposed PostgreSQL on all network interfaces. The deployment included fixed default credentials for the Keycloak administrator and PostgreSQL database user, and the previous Helm chart configuration did not provide adequate secret management for these credentials. In addition, predefined application users with known credentials were provided for development and testing without sufficiently warning operators against their use in production environments. An attacker able to reach the exposed services could use the published default credentials to obtain administrative access to the Identity Manager or direct access to its database. This could allow unauthorized access to or modification of identity-management data, including users, roles, client credentials, sessions, and cryptographic material, and could enable the creation of privileged identities or tokens accepted by other aeriOS components. The issue has been addressed by generating a random Keycloak administrator password by default, managing Keycloak and PostgreSQL credentials through Kubernetes Secrets, and restricting PostgreSQL to an internal service in both the Helm chart and Docker Compose deployment. OpenLDAP is also restricted to an internal service. The predefined users intended for development and testing are retained, but the documentation now explicitly warns that their default credentials must not be used in production and that these users should be removed or their credentials changed after installation.

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