Red Hat Quarkus HTTP Request extra values

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Red Hat Quarkus, JBoss Fuse, Mobile Application Platform, OpenShift Application Runtimes, Process Automation, Single Sign-On and Support for Spring Boot. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component HTTP Request Handler. Performing a manipulation results in improper handling of extra values. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-6841. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Red Hat Quarkus, JBoss Fuse, Mobile Application Platform, OpenShift Application Runtimes, Process Automation, Single Sign-On and Support for Spring Boot. This affects an unknown functionality of the component HTTP Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper handling of extra values vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-231. The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when more values are provided than expected. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-6841 since 12/15/2023. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/02/2025).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-2886). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.2
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.2

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Class: Improper handling of extra values
CWE: CWE-231 / CWE-229 / CWE-20
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

12/15/2023 🔍
09/10/2024 +269 days 🔍
09/10/2024 +0 days 🔍
08/02/2025 +326 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: access.redhat.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-6841 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-6841
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-277005
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/10/2024 18:39
Updated: 08/02/2025 18:24
Changes: 09/10/2024 18:39 (61), 09/23/2024 18:16 (12), 10/01/2024 16:33 (4), 08/02/2025 18:24 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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