CVE-2026-9803 PUBLISHED

Keycloak: keycloak: denial of service via malformed authorization header

Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 28.05.2026 Published: 28.05.2026 Updated: 28.05.2026

A flaw was found in Keycloak's ClientRegistrationAuth component. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted POST request with a malformed 'Authorization: Bearer' header to any client registration endpoint. This can lead to an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, causing the server to return an HTTP 500 error and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the affected service.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Build of Keycloak
Versions Default: affected

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 Mustafa Çetin for reporting this issue.

References

Problem Types

  • Out-of-bounds Read CWE