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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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-6841
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 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 sourcePublished 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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