A flaw was found in keycloak where a brute force attack is possible even when the permanent lockout feature is enabled. This is due to a wrong error message displayed when wrong credentials are entered. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Affected Packages

Maven org.keycloak:keycloak-parent

Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 13.0.0)

Related CVEs

CVE-2021-3513

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-xv7h-95r7-595j

Published

August 23, 2022 12:00 AM

Last Modified

August 30, 2022 8:24 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Maven

Primary Package

org.keycloak:keycloak-parent

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 22, 2025 6:29 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.