Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-4634

Keycloak: keycloak: denial of service via excessive processing of openid connect scope parameters

CVSS 3.1
7.5High

Official description

A flaw was found in Keycloak. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted POST request with an excessively long scope parameter to the OpenID Connect (OIDC) token endpoint. This leads to high resource consumption and prolonged processing times, ultimately resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the Keycloak server.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.5High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (redhat) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (redhat-SADP) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
No product information recorded.

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-04-02
Last updated
2026-10-06
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
redhat

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.63%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
50.7%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-1050
    Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop