Description

A vulnerability was found in the Keycloak Server. The Keycloak Server is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) attack due to improper handling of proxy headers. When Keycloak is configured to accept incoming proxy headers, it may accept non-IP values, such as obfuscated identifiers, without proper validation. This issue can lead to costly DNS resolution operations, which an attacker could exploit to tie up IO threads and potentially cause a denial of service. The attacker must have access to send requests to a Keycloak instance that is configured to accept proxy headers, specifically when reverse proxies do not overwrite incoming headers, and Keycloak is configured to trust these headers.

INFO

Published Date :

2024-11-25T07:29:52.073Z

Last Modified :

2025-12-22T06:09:19.514Z

Source :

redhat
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-9666 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Redhat
  • Build Keycloak
  • Jboss Enterprise Application Platform

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