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Unexpected error when authenticating client: java.lang.RuntimeException: Illegal base64url string!

See original GitHub issue

Describe the bug

Hi,

We are using Keycloak 19.0.1 and seeing these lot of error logs from Keycloak deployed in K8S cluster in clustered mode. It started coming as soon as we upgraded to 19.0.1

Sep 10, 2022 @ 10:45:15.768 2022-09-10 05:15:15,768 WARN [org.keycloak.events] (executor-thread-7) type=LOGIN_ERROR, realmId=XXX, clientId=null, userId=null, ipAddress=xx.xx.xxx.xx, error=invalid_client_credentials, grant_type=password

2022-09-10 05:15:15,766 ERROR [org.keycloak.services] (executor-thread-7) KC-SERVICES0015: Unexpected error when authenticating client: java.lang.RuntimeException: Illegal base64url string!
	at org.keycloak.common.util.Base64Url.encodeBase64UrlToBase64(Base64Url.java:71)
	at org.keycloak.common.util.Base64Url.decode(Base64Url.java:32)
	at org.keycloak.util.BasicAuthHelper$UrlEncoded.parseHeader(BasicAuthHelper.java:49)
	at org.keycloak.authentication.authenticators.client.ClientIdAndSecretAuthenticator.authenticateClient(ClientIdAndSecretAuthenticator.java:67)
	at org.keycloak.authentication.ClientAuthenticationFlow.processFlow(ClientAuthenticationFlow.java:72)
	at org.keycloak.authentication.AuthenticationProcessor.authenticateClient(AuthenticationProcessor.java:888)
	at org.keycloak.protocol.oidc.utils.AuthorizeClientUtil.authorizeClient(AuthorizeClientUtil.java:51)
	at org.keycloak.protocol.oidc.endpoints.TokenEndpoint.checkClient(TokenEndpoint.java:248)
	at org.keycloak.protocol.oidc.endpoints.TokenEndpoint.processGrantRequest(TokenEndpoint.java:192)
	at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor394.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.MethodInjectorImpl.invoke(MethodInjectorImpl.java:170)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.MethodInjectorImpl.invoke(MethodInjectorImpl.java:130)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodInvoker.internalInvokeOnTarget(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:660)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodInvoker.invokeOnTargetAfterFilter(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:524)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodInvoker.lambda$invokeOnTarget$2(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:474)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.interception.jaxrs.PreMatchContainerRequestContext.filter(PreMatchContainerRequestContext.java:364)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodInvoker.invokeOnTarget(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:476)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodInvoker.invoke(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:434)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceLocatorInvoker.invokeOnTargetObject(ResourceLocatorInvoker.java:192)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceLocatorInvoker.invoke(ResourceLocatorInvoker.java:152)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceLocatorInvoker.invokeOnTargetObject(ResourceLocatorInvoker.java:183)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceLocatorInvoker.invoke(ResourceLocatorInvoker.java:141)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceLocatorInvoker.invoke(ResourceLocatorInvoker.java:32)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.SynchronousDispatcher.invoke(SynchronousDispatcher.java:492)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.SynchronousDispatcher.lambda$invoke$4(SynchronousDispatcher.java:261)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.SynchronousDispatcher.lambda$preprocess$0(SynchronousDispatcher.java:161)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.interception.jaxrs.PreMatchContainerRequestContext.filter(PreMatchContainerRequestContext.java:364)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.SynchronousDispatcher.preprocess(SynchronousDispatcher.java:164)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.core.SynchronousDispatcher.invoke(SynchronousDispatcher.java:247)
	at io.quarkus.resteasy.runtime.standalone.RequestDispatcher.service(RequestDispatcher.java:73)
	at io.quarkus.resteasy.runtime.standalone.VertxRequestHandler.dispatch(VertxRequestHandler.java:151)
	at io.quarkus.resteasy.runtime.standalone.VertxRequestHandler.handle(VertxRequestHandler.java:82)
	at io.quarkus.resteasy.runtime.standalone.VertxRequestHandler.handle(VertxRequestHandler.java:42)
	at io.vertx.ext.web.impl.RouteState.handleContext(RouteState.java:1212)
	at io.vertx.ext.web.impl.RoutingContextImplBase.iterateNext(RoutingContextImplBase.java:163)
	at io.vertx.ext.web.impl.RoutingContextWrapper.next(RoutingContextWrapper.java:201)
	at io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.StaticResourcesRecorder$2.handle(StaticResourcesRecorder.java:67)
	at io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.StaticResourcesRecorder$2.handle(StaticResourcesRecorder.java:55)
	at io.vertx.ext.web.impl.RouteState.handleContext(RouteState.java:1212)
	at io.vertx.ext.web.impl.RoutingContextImplBase.iterateNext(RoutingContextImplBase.java:163)
	at io.vertx.ext.web.impl.RoutingContextWrapper.next(RoutingContextWrapper.java:201)
	at io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.VertxHttpRecorder$5.handle(VertxHttpRecorder.java:380)
	at io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.VertxHttpRecorder$5.handle(VertxHttpRecorder.java:358)
	at io.vertx.ext.web.impl.RouteState.handleContext(RouteState.java:1212)
	at io.vertx.ext.web.impl.RoutingContextImplBase.iterateNext(RoutingContextImplBase.java:163)
	at io.vertx.ext.web.impl.RoutingContextWrapper.next(RoutingContextWrapper.java:201)
	at org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.integration.web.QuarkusRequestFilter.lambda$createBlockingHandler$1(QuarkusRequestFilter.java:90)
	at io.vertx.core.impl.ContextImpl.lambda$null$0(ContextImpl.java:159)
	at io.vertx.core.impl.AbstractContext.dispatch(AbstractContext.java:100)
	at io.vertx.core.impl.ContextImpl.lambda$executeBlocking$1(ContextImpl.java:157)
	at io.quarkus.vertx.core.runtime.VertxCoreRecorder$13.runWith(VertxCoreRecorder.java:545)
	at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$Task.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:2449)
	at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1478)
	at org.jboss.threads.DelegatingRunnable.run(DelegatingRunnable.java:29)
	at org.jboss.threads.ThreadLocalResettingRunnable.run(ThreadLocalResettingRunnable.java:29)
	at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)