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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-16100

Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: unbounded metric cardinality in user event metrics via request-controlled error text

Description

A flaw was found in the user-event metrics recording of Keycloak. When metrics are enabled, the system records raw error messages from failed account operations as Prometheus metric labels. Because these error messages can include user-supplied input like nonexistent client IDs, an authenticated user can create a massive number of unique metric entries, eventually exhausting system memory and causing the service to crash or become unavailable.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6

Default version status: affected

  • 26.6.5-1 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6

Default version status: affected

  • 26.6-11 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6

Default version status: affected

  • 26.6-11 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.5

Default version status: unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.5

Default version status: unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.5

Default version status: unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Data Grid 8

Default version status: unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack

Default version status: unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7

Default version status: unaffected

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