Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop Affecting org.keycloak:keycloak-services package, versions [,26.5.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGKEYCLOAK-15907552
  • published5 Apr 2026
  • disclosed2 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-4634  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1050  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.keycloak:keycloak-services to version 26.5.7 or higher.

Overview

org.keycloak:keycloak-services is an open source identity and access management solution for modern applications and services.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop via the scope parameter processing in the OpenID Connect (OIDC) token endpoint. An attacker can exhaust server resources and cause prolonged response times by sending a specially crafted POST request with an excessively long scope value.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1