cve-2023-6841
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-10 16:15
Modified
2025-03-15 04:00
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS score ?
0.30% (0.52971)
Summary
A denial of service vulnerability was found in keycloak where the amount of attributes per object is not limited,an attacker by sending repeated HTTP requests could cause a resource exhaustion when the application send back rows with long attribute values.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6841Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254714Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
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Version: 0   ≤
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   Red Hat Red Hat build of Quarkus     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_application_runtimes:1.0
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   Red Hat Red Hat Fuse 7     cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_fuse:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:mobile_application_platform:4
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_application_runtimes:1.0
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   Red Hat Red Hat Process Automation 7     cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_bpms_platform:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7     cpe:/a:redhat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat support for Spring Boot     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_application_runtimes:1.0
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