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ghsa-w97f-w3hq-36g2

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-09-10 18:30

Modified

2024-11-18 16:27

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.1 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

Keycloak Denial of Service vulnerability

Details

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. The issue is fixed in Keycloak 24 with the introduction of the User Profile feature.

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   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Maven",
            name: "org.keycloak:keycloak-core",
         },
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                  {
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                  },
                  {
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               ],
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      "CVE-2023-6841",
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      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2024-09-10T19:41:54Z",
      nvd_published_at: "2024-09-10T17:15:15Z",
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   },
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   id: "GHSA-w97f-w3hq-36g2",
   modified: "2024-11-18T16:27:11Z",
   published: "2024-09-10T18:30:44Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6841",
      },
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         url: "https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/32837",
      },
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      },
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      },
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      },
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      },
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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

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

▼	URL	Tags
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6841	vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254714	issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

Version: 0 ≤

Red Hat	Red Hat build of Quarkus	cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_application_runtimes:1.0
Red Hat	Red Hat Fuse 7	cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_fuse:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4	cpe:/a:redhat:mobile_application_platform:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes	cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_application_runtimes:1.0
Red Hat	Red Hat Process Automation 7	cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_bpms_platform:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Single Sign-On 7	cpe:/a:redhat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7
Red Hat	Red Hat support for Spring Boot	cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_application_runtimes:1.0

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