CVE-2017-2646: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

July 27, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

When Keycloak receives a Logout request in the middle of the request, the SAMLSloRequestParser.parse() method ends in an infinite loop. An attacker could use this flaw to conduct denial of service attacks.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/96882
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2646
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2646

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