CVE-2023-6563
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
7.7
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
1.2%
67.8th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-770
Published 2023-12-14 · modified 2026-09-22
Description
An unconstrained memory consumption vulnerability was discovered in Keycloak. It can be triggered in environments which have millions of offline tokens (> 500,000 users with each having at least 2 saved sessions). If an attacker creates two or more user sessions and then open the "consents" tab of the admin User Interface, the UI attempts to load a huge number of offline client sessions leading to excessive memory and CPU consumption which could potentially crash the entire system.
Affected
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7854
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7855
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7856
- exploit https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7857
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7858
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6563
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253308
- https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/13340
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7854
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7855
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7856
- exploit https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7857
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7858
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6563
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253308
- https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/13340