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Keycloak's unvalidated cross-origin messages in checkLoginIframe leads to DDoS

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 17, 2024 in keycloak/keycloak • Updated Jun 24, 2024

Package

maven org.keycloak:keycloak-services (Maven)

Affected versions

< 22.0.10
>= 23.0.0, < 24.0.3

Patched versions

22.0.10
24.0.3

Description

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

@abstractj abstractj published to keycloak/keycloak Apr 17, 2024
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 17, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 17, 2024
Reviewed Apr 17, 2024
Last updated Jun 24, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.044%
(14th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-1249

GHSA ID

GHSA-m6q9-p373-g5q8

Source code

Credits

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