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CVE-2021-3513 (GCVE-0-2021-3513)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-22 14:45 – Updated: 2024-08-03 16:53
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Summary
A flaw was found in keycloak where a brute force attack is possible even when the permanent lockout feature is enabled. This is due to a wrong error message displayed when wrong credentials are entered. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-522 - - Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a keycloak Affected: Fixed in keycloak v13.0.0.
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