CVE-2026-79651 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 25.08.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 26.4.16-2 to * (excl.)
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 26.4-26 to * (excl.)
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 26.4-26 to * (excl.)
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.16
Versions Default: unaffected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.16
Versions Default: unaffected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.16
Versions Default: unaffected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 26.6.7-3 to * (excl.)
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 26.6-20 to * (excl.)
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 26.6-20 to * (excl.)
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.7
Versions Default: unaffected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.7
Versions Default: unaffected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.7
Versions Default: unaffected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
Versions Default: unaffected

Workarounds

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.

Credits

  • Red Hat would like to thank yd1ng for reporting this issue.

References

Problem Types

  • Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE