A flaw was found in the theme localization endpoints of the keycloak-services component, which is the core service responsible for authentication flows and theme management in Keycloak. The issue occurs because the system accepts arbitrary locale tags from unauthenticated requests and stores them in a permanent in-memory cache without limits. An attacker can exploit this by sending a large number of unique locale tags, eventually causing the server to run out of memory and crash.

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Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak: cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.4::el9
cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:26.6::el9
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Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in the theme localization endpoints of the keycloak-services component, which is the core service responsible for authentication flows and theme management in Keycloak. The issue occurs because the system accepts arbitrary locale tags from unauthenticated requests and stores them in a permanent in-memory cache without limits. An attacker can exploit this by sending a large number of unique locale tags, eventually causing the server to run out of memory and crash.
Title Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: unauthenticated dos via unbounded locale caching
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat build Keycloak
Redhat red Hat Single Sign On
Weaknesses CWE-400
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:build_keycloak:
cpe:/a:redhat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat build Keycloak
Redhat red Hat Single Sign On
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-16T18:09:35.156Z

Reserved: 2026-08-25T10:38:42.346Z

Link: CVE-2026-79651

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-16T15:36:11.330Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-16T15:17:52.000

Modified: 2026-09-16T16:17:16.413

Link: CVE-2026-79651

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