Resource exhaustion in Keycloak - CVE-2014-3651
Published: December 29, 2017 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31373
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3651
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Keycloak
Affected software:
Keycloak
Keycloak
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
JBoss KeyCloak before 1.0.3.Final allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a large value in the size parameter to auth/qrcode, related to QR code generation.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3651
Install update from vendor's website.