Protection Mechanism Failure in Keycloak - CVE-2024-11734

 

Protection Mechanism Failure in Keycloak - CVE-2024-11734

Published: January 13, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU102569
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11734
CWE-ID: CWE-693
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient implementation of security measures. A remote user with the rights to change realm settings can send a specially crafted HTTP request with newline characters in headers and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Keycloak
Red Hat build of Keycloak

How to mitigate CVE-2024-11734

Install updates from vendor's website.

Keycloak - update to 26.0.8
Red Hat build of Keycloak - update to 26.0.8

External References

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