Medium [CVE-2024-11734] Org.keycloak:keycloak-quarkus-server: denial of service in keycloak server via security headers
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2024-11734 affecting Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.0, RHBK 26.0.8.
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Summary
A denial of service vulnerability was found in Keycloak that could allow an administrative user with the right to change realm settings to disrupt the service.
This action is done by modifying any of the security headers and inserting newlines, which causes the Keycloak server to write to a request that has already been terminated, leading to the failure of said request. Red Hat has evaluated this vulnerability and its impact is restricted to Keycloak.
No Keycloak connectors/adapters are affected. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Weakness: CWE-693. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.0; RHBK 26.0.8; Red Hat Build of Keycloak.
Red Hat lists Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack as not affected. Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Build of Keycloak.
Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2025:0299, RHSA-2025:0300.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 17 days ago·verify at source
- rhbk/keycloak-operator-bundle:26.0.8-1
- rhbk/keycloak-rhel9:26.0-7
- rhbk/keycloak-rhel9-operator:26.0-8
- RHSA-2025:0299
- RHSA-2025:0300
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 17 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 17 days ago·verify at source
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