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CVE-2026-53913 Sumo Logic CSE · Sumo

Detect Apache Camel camel-keycloak KeycloakSecurityPolicy Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-53913) in Sumo Logic CSE

Apache Camel's camel-keycloak component contains a KeycloakSecurityPolicy that improperly handles authentication (CWE-287), resulting in missing authentication for a critical function and a fail-open condition. Affected versions >=4.15.0 <4.18.3 and >=4.19.0 <4.21.0 allow requests to bypass Keycloak-enforced authentication checks on Camel routes, permitting unauthenticated access to protected endpoints/routes. CVSS 9.8, PoC public via GHSA-qvc3-6q9x-95pj.

MITRE ATT&CK

Tactic
Initial Access Privilege Escalation Defense Evasion

Sumo Detection Query

Sumo Logic CSE (Sumo)
sql
_sourceCategory=app/camel
| where !isNull(logEntry) and (logEntry matches "*KeycloakSecurityPolicy*" or logEntry matches "*camel-keycloak*")
| parse regex field=logEntry "status=(?<status>\d+)" 
| parse regex field=logEntry "path=(?<path>\S+)"
| where isEmpty(authorizationHeader)
| where status in (200,201,202,204)
| where path matches "*secured*" or path matches "*admin*" or path matches "*protected*"
| timeslice 5m
| count by client_ip, _timeslice
| where _count >= 3
| sort by _count
critical severity medium confidence

Surfaces bursts of unauthenticated but successful requests to Keycloak-protected Camel routes.

Data Sources

Application logsCamel route logs

Required Tables

app/camel

False Positives & Tuning

  • Unauthenticated health-check routes by design
  • Logs missing header fields due to parser misconfiguration
  • Internal service mesh traffic authenticated via mTLS
  • Automated synthetic monitoring

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Testing Methodology

Validate this detection against 3 adversary techniques from Atomic Red Team. Each test below lists the behaviour to exercise and the telemetry you should expect to see. Executable commands and cleanup steps are available with Pro.

  1. Test 1Simulate unauthenticated request to Keycloak-protected Camel route

    Expected signal: Application/access log entry showing a request to /secured/test-endpoint with no Authorization header and an HTTP 200-series response.

  2. Test 2Repeated bypass attempts to trigger threshold-based alerting

    Expected signal: Five sequential log entries within a 5-minute window from the same client IP hitting /admin/config without Authorization headers, each returning 2xx.

  3. Test 3Windows-based PowerShell simulation of unauthenticated access

    Expected signal: Access log entry recording a request to /protected/data with an empty Authorization header field and a successful HTTP status code.

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