High
Security advisory
It was found that when Keycloak before 2.5.5 receives a Logout request with a Extensions in the middle of the request, the SAMLSloRequestParser.parse() method ends in a infinite loop. An attacker could use this flaw to conduct denial of service attacks.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-2646
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
It was found that when Keycloak before 2.5.5 receives a Logout request with a Extensions in the middle of the request, the SAMLSloRequestParser.parse() method ends in a infinite loop. An attacker could use this flaw to conduct denial of service attacks.
osv:CVE-2017-2646
Complete source record
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