A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in UAA's private_key_jwt client-authentication mechanism. When UAA retrieves a remote JWKS URI, it caches the response. Invalid authentication attempts can trigger full deserialization of this cached data. An attacker with prerequisites (write access to clients or a compromised endpoint) can send anonymous requests that force repeated parsing of large cached objects, causing excessive CPU usage and potential Java heap exhaustion via OutOfMemoryError, resulting in service unavailability.
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Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:45:00 +0000
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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 CWE-502 |
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| Description | A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in UAA's private_key_jwt client-authentication mechanism. When UAA retrieves a remote JWKS URI, it caches the response. Invalid authentication attempts can trigger full deserialization of this cached data. An attacker with prerequisites (write access to clients or a compromised endpoint) can send anonymous requests that force repeated parsing of large cached objects, causing excessive CPU usage and potential Java heap exhaustion via OutOfMemoryError, resulting in service unavailability. | |
| Title | DoS Vulnerability in UAA Related to JWKS URI Handling | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: vmware
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-30T08:24:47.718Z
Reserved: 2026-07-04T18:15:31.160Z
Link: CVE-2026-59396
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-30T09:17:15.197
Modified: 2026-10-30T09:17:15.197
Link: CVE-2026-59396
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Updated: 2026-10-30T09:30:11Z