High

Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: unauthenticated dos via unbounded locale caching

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

A flaw was found in the theme localization endpoints of the keycloak-services component, which is the core service responsible for authentication flows and theme management in Keycloak. The issue occurs because the system accepts arbitrary locale tags from unauthenticated requests and stores them in a permanent in-memory cache without limits. An attacker can exploit this by sending a large number of unique locale tags, eventually causing the server to run out of memory and crash.

Announced 16 Sept 2026Source revision 1

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CVE-2026-79651

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Security context

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.16

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.16

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.16

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.7

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.7

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Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.7

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Red Hat Single Sign-On 7

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Structured affected-version data

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Related CVEs: CVE-2026-79651
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Publisher severity

high

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Event: #1994 · Revision 1
Added to Heist Feed: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:11:10 GMT
Publisher date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:55:09 GMT

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