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.
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GHSA-m6vc-f87m-cc2h | Doorkeeper Openid Connect: Dynamic Client Registration feature creates public clients with client_secret |
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Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Doorkeeper OpenID Connect: Dynamic Client Registration feature creates public clients with client_secret | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1390 CWE-287 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-25T22:47:54.774Z
Reserved: 2026-05-06T17:18:51.782Z
Link: CVE-2026-44476
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-25T23:17:04.400
Modified: 2026-08-25T23:17:04.400
Link: CVE-2026-44476
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-26T01:15:04Z
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