Improper Authentication Affecting doorkeeper package, versions <5.6.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-DOORKEEPER-5702995
  • published 13 Jun 2023
  • disclosed 12 Jun 2023
  • credit hickford, rgammans, nbudin, nbulaj

How to fix?

Upgrade doorkeeper to version 5.6.6 or higher.

Overview

doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Rails and Grape.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication due to automatically processing authorization requests without user consent for public clients that have been previously approved. Public clients are inherently vulnerable to impersonation, their identity cannot be assured.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
4.2 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

6.5 medium