GHSA-m6q9-p373-g5q8
Keycloak's unvalidated cross-origin messages in checkLoginIframe leads to DDoS
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.keycloak:keycloak-services | < 22.0.10 | 22.0.10 |
| Maven | org.keycloak:keycloak-services | >= 23.0.0, < 24.0.3 | 24.0.3 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
A potential security flaw in the "checkLoginIframe" which allows unvalidated cross-origin messages, enabling potential DDoS attacks. By exploiting this vulnerability, attackers could coordinate to send millions of requests in seconds using simple code, significantly impacting the application's availability without proper origin validation for incoming messages.
#### Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Adriano Márcio Monteiro from BRZTEC for reporting this issue and helping us improve our project.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/security/advisories/GHSA-m6q9-p373-g5q8
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1249
- https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/commit/9d9817e15a07195f16f554b7f60ee3a918369e26
- https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/commit/e3598a53678a1e3698e78eb71e04ba10ca32e5e2
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1860
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1861
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1862
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1864
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1866
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1867
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1868
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2945
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4057
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1249
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262918
- https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak