CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-4634 — A flaw was found in Keycloak

High CVSS 7.5

A flaw was found in Keycloak. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted POST request with an excessively long scope parameter to the OpenID Connect (OIDC) token endpoint. This leads to high resource consumption and prolonged processing times, ultimately resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the Keycloak server.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-04-02
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-1050

Affected products

  • redhat / build_of_keycloak
  • redhat / build_of_keycloak / 26.2
  • redhat / build_of_keycloak / 26.2.15
  • redhat / build_of_keycloak / 26.4
  • redhat / build_of_keycloak / 26.4.11

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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