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CVE-2026-9801

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2026-05-28 Modified: 2026-06-26

Description

A flaw was found in Keycloak. A remote attacker with high privileges, such as a realm administrator configuring a malicious Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server or an attacker compromising an upstream LDAP server, could exploit this vulnerability. By sending a malformed LDAP password policy response during a password authentication request, the attacker can trigger an OutOfMemoryError. This causes the Keycloak Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to terminate, leading to a denial of service (DoS) for all realms on the affected node.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Build Of Keycloak

Weakness Type

CWE-1284

References