A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Keycloak metrics implementation. When user-event metrics are enabled, the EventMetricsProvider records the verbatim error message from failed account operations as a Prometheus metric label. The account consent endpoint specifically embeds caller-supplied input, such as nonexistent client IDs or invalid scope names, directly into these error messages.
An authenticated attacker with manage-account or manage-consent permissions can exploit this by repeatedly calling the account consent delete endpoint with unique, randomized client ID values. Each request results in a distinct error message and a corresponding new Prometheus metric time series. This leads to unbounded metric cardinality, which can exhaust the memory of both the Keycloak instance and the connected monitoring system, resulting in a denial of service and degradation of metrics availability.