CVE-2024-1722 Keycloak-core: dos via account lockout

What is CVE-2024-1722?

CVE-2024-1722 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Keycloak, published on 27 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in Keycloak. In certain conditions, this issue may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to block other accounts from logging in.

Weakness: CWE-645

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1722?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.keycloak:keycloak-services. It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Keycloak.

How do I fix CVE-2024-1722?

Upgrade org.keycloak:keycloak-services to 24.0.0 or later.

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-2024-1722 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1722 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Keycloak

• CVE-2022-4361 Keycloak vulnerable to cross-site scripting when validating URI-schemes on SAML and OIDC Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-1245 Keycloak vulnerable to privilege escalation on Token Exchange feature Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-20195 keycloak Self Stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability Critical 9.6
• CVE-2019-14910 Keycloak Authentication Error Critical 9.3
• CVE-2019-14909 Keycloak Authentication Error Critical 9.3

All Redhat Keycloak vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cq42-vhv7-xr7p.