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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-44476 EUVD-2026-66188GHSA-m6vc-f87m-cc2h

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

Published Aug 25, 2026 · Updated Aug 26, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
doorkeeper-gem doorkeeper-openid_connect >= 1.9.0, < 1.10.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ruby-doorkeeper-openid-connect 1.10.1-1 —
Debian 13 ruby-doorkeeper-openid-connect No fix yet —
Debian 12 ruby-doorkeeper-openid-connect No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ruby-doorkeeper-openid-connect No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ruby-doorkeeper-openid-connect No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ruby-doorkeeper-openid-connect No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ruby-doorkeeper-openid-connect No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ruby-doorkeeper-openid-connect No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems doorkeeper-openid_connect >= 1.9.0, < 1.10.0 1.10.0 GHSA-m6vc-f87m-cc2h

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