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Keycloak: amount of attributes per object is not limited and it may lead to dos

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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.

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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2023-6841
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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3 Nov 2026, 07:47 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Keycloak: amount of attributes per object is not limited and it may lead to dos

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Sept 2024, 16:15 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2023-6841
Complete source record
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