CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-2646

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Jul 27, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
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It was found that when Keycloak before 2.5.5 receives a Logout request with a Extensions in the middle of the request, the SAMLSloRequestParser.parse() method ends in a infinite loop. An attacker could use this flaw to conduct denial of service attacks.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
KeycloakRedhat*2.5.5 (excluding)

References