Linkedin OAuth2 Keys

Description

General

• Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/linkedin/shared/authentication/authentication
• Summary: Linkedin OAuth2 credentials enable applications to access LinkedIn resources, such as member data. The LinkedIn platform uses permissions to protect and prevent abuse of member data.
• IPs allowlist: As of the time of writing this documentation, this feature is not available.
• Scopes: Scopes can be set when the application requests a token for authentication. Always request minimal permission scopes necessary for the use case.

Revoke the secret

To revoke a secret, go to the Applications dashboard, find the application which corresponds to the client ID and delete it. A new application can then be created with the same permissions.

Check for suspicious activity

As of the time of writing this documentation, this feature is not available.

Details for Linkedin OAuth2 Keys

• Family: credentials

• Category: social_network

• Company: Linkedin

• High recall: False

• Validity check available: True

• Analyzer available: False

• On-premise instances exist: False

• Only valid secrets raise an alert: False

• Minimum number of matches: 2

• Occurrences found for one million commits: 2.35

• Prefixed: False

• PreValidators:

- type: FilenameBanlistPreValidator
  banlist_extensions: []
  banlist_filenames: []
  check_binaries: false
  include_default_banlist_extensions: true
  ban_markup: true
- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator
  patterns:
    - linkedin
- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator
  patterns:
    - (id|key)
- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator
  patterns:
    - secret

Examples

- text: |
    linkedin_client_id = 86mn593uu0cjtm
    linkedin_client_secret = OSnVhWGxL8vxFL7g
  client_id: 86mn593uu0cjtm
  client_secret: OSnVhWGxL8vxFL7g