CVE-2023-6841
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Description
A denial of service vulnerability was found in keycloak where the amount of attributes per object is not limited,an attacker by sending repeated HTTP requests could cause a resource exhaustion when the application send back rows with long attribute values.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.5
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2024-09-10 17:15:15.170000
Last modified
2026-11-05 12:17:39.573000
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