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Medium · 4.7 CVE-2024-9666 EUVD-2024-3365GHSA-jgwc-jh89-rpgq

Org.keycloak/keycloak-quarkus-server: keycloak proxy header handling denial-of-service (dos) vulnerability

Published Nov 25, 2024 · Updated Nov 3, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— keycloak < 24.0.9, 25.0.0 – < 26.0.6 24.0.9
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 24 — —
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 24.0.9 — —
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.0 — —
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.0.6 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Build of Keycloak — —
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 — —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.keycloak:keycloak-quarkus-server all versions — GHSA-jgwc-jh89-rpgq
Maven org.keycloak:keycloak-quarkus-server >= 25.0.0, < 26.0.6 26.0.6 GHSA-jgwc-jh89-rpgq

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