Description
A flaw was found in Keycloak. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted XML input to the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) endpoint. This malicious input can cause high CPU usage and worker thread starvation, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) where the server becomes unavailable.
Problem types
Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input
Product status
26.2.16-1 (rpm) before *
26.2-21 (rpm) before *
26.2-21 (rpm) before *
26.4.12-1 (rpm) before *
26.4-17 (rpm) before *
26.4-17 (rpm) before *
Timeline
| 2026-05-12: | Reported to Red Hat. |
| 2026-05-19: | Made public. |
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Anchels for reporting this issue.
References
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19594 (RHSA-2026:19594)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19595 (RHSA-2026:19595)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19596 (RHSA-2026:19596)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19597 (RHSA-2026:19597)
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-7307
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2476526 (RHBZ#2476526)