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CVE-2026-44476GHSA-M6VC-F87M-CC2H

Doorkeeper OpenID Connect: Dynamic Client Registration feature creates public clients with client_secret

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.10.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails. In version 1.9.0, an attacker who knows only a dynamically registered client's client_id, which is public information, can authenticate as that client at the token endpoint and obtain an access token without providing its client_secret. This occurs because the Dynamic Client Registration feature creates applications with confidential: false hard-coded, even though the registration response returns a client_secret and advertises support for the client_secret_basic and client_secret_post authentication methods; since Doorkeeper treats a blank or missing secret as valid for non-confidential (public) clients, the secret is never verified. Only projects that have explicitly enabled Dynamic Client Registration, which is disabled by default, are affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.10.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • doorkeeper-gem doorkeeper-openid_connect

    From 1.9.0 · fixed in 1.10.0

  • doorkeeper-openid_connectRubyGems

    From 1.9.0 · fixed in 1.10.0

References 2

GitHub · doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper-openid_connect