CVE-2024-10270 Org.keycloak:keycloak-services: keycloak denial of service
Attackers can cause denial of service in Keycloak by sending untrusted data that triggers excessive regex processing, exhausting system resources.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-10270?
CVE-2024-10270 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8, published on 25 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability was found in the Keycloak-services package. If untrusted data is passed to the SearchQueryUtils method, it could lead to a denial of service (DoS) scenario by exhausting system resources due to a Regex complexity.
Weakness: CWE-1333
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10270?
4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.keycloak:keycloak-services.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.keycloak:keycloak-services Maven | All versions | 24.0.9 |
org.keycloak:keycloak-services Maven | All versions | 24.0.9 |
org.keycloak:keycloak-services Maven | From 25.0.0 | 26.0.6 |
org.keycloak:keycloak-services Maven | From 25.0.0 | 26.0.6 |
How do I fix CVE-2024-10270?
Upgrade org.keycloak:keycloak-services to a fixed version for your release line: 24.0.9 or 26.0.6.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-10270 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10270 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as ECHO-c80e-9875-82a0, GHSA-wq8x-cg39-8mrr.