Keycloak DoS via Unbounded Attribute Values
CVE-2023-6841 Published on September 10, 2024

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.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-6841 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

Improper Handling of Extra Values

The software does not handle or incorrectly handles when more values are provided than expected.


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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.61%
Percentile
69.14%

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