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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-79651 EUVD-2026-80830GHSA-8qv5-pjhw-3gx4

Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: unauthenticated dos via unbounded locale caching

Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Sep 25, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A flaw was found in the theme localization endpoints of the keycloak-services component, which is the core service responsible for authentication flows and theme management in Keycloak. The issue occurs because the system accepts arbitrary locale tags from unauthenticated requests and stores them in a permanent in-memory cache without limits. An attacker can exploit this by sending a large number of unique locale tags, eventually causing the server to run out of memory and crash.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 — —
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.16 — —
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6 — —
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.7 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 — —

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