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Vulnerability · Published May 28, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2026-9803Keycloak: keycloak: denial of service via malformed authorization header

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity out-of-bounds read in Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 from Red Hat. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 36% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in Keycloak's ClientRegistrationAuth component. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted POST request with a malformed 'Authorization: Bearer' header to any client registration endpoint. This can lead to an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, causing the server to return an HTTP 500 error and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the affected service.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Mavenorg.keycloak:keycloak-servicesno fix listedGHSA-cpf7-j4cf-vqx4
Mavenorg.keycloak:keycloak-services26.6.3GHSA-cpf7-j4cf-vqx4

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 see references
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 see references
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 see references
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.13 see references
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6 see references
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6 see references
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6 see references
Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.3 see references

Weakness: CWE-125 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References