USN-7394-1: Doorkeeper vulnerabilities

31 March 2025

Several security issues were fixed in ruby-doorkeeper.

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Jonathan Clem and Justin Bull discovered that Doorkeeper could allow
arbitrary token revocation and replay attacks. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to gain unauthorized access to a system. (CVE-2016-6582)

It was discovered that Doorkeeper incorrectly handled storing client names.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute a cross-site
scripting (XSS) attack. (CVE-2018-1000088)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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