+1 for not trusting the algorithm in the JWT header to avoid these attacks:  https://auth0.com/blog/2015/03/31/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-token-libraries/

 

Should do more than just signature validation though to be secure:

 

·         Expiration check

·         Audience check

·         Subject check

 

This is a pretty good overview of the mechanics:  http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2014/03/03/principles-of-token-validation/

 

-Jason

 

From: <keycloak-user-bounces@lists.jboss.org> on behalf of Stian Thorgersen <sthorger@redhat.com>
Reply-To: "stian@redhat.com" <stian@redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 10:01 PM
To: Josh Cain <josh.cain@redhat.com>
Cc: Aikeaguinea <aikeaguinea@xsmail.com>, "keycloak-user@lists.jboss.org" <keycloak-user@lists.jboss.org>
Subject: Re: [keycloak-user] Validating JWT tokens

 

You can also use https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/keycloak/RSATokenVerifier.java

 

On 11 May 2016 at 15:50, Josh Cain <josh.cain@redhat.com> wrote:

I recently put together a quick test for this as well using jjwt: https://github.com/cainj13/jwtExamples/blob/master/src/test/java/jcain/example/TokenParseTest.java

Pretty similar to the gist that Thomas mentioned above.


Josh Cain | Software Applications Engineer

Identity and Access Management

Red Hat
+1 843-737-1735

 

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:09 AM, Thomas Darimont <thomas.darimont@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hello,

 

another example for (Parsing) & Validating a Keycloak JWT was posted on the ML a few months ago:

 

In the example the token is only successfully parsed when the token is valid.

 

Cheers,

Thomas

 

2016-05-11 10:45 GMT+02:00 Gerard Laissard <glaissard@axway.com>:

 

My 2 cents:

There is an openSSL example to verify a jwt:

https://gist.github.com/rolandyoung/176dd310a6948e094be6

 

By using jose4j

        // be sure you do not have any EOL at the end of the token

String accesToken = …;

accesToken = accesToken.replaceAll("\r\n", "");

accesToken = accesToken.replaceAll("\n", "");

 

JsonWebSignature jws = new JsonWebSignature();

jws.setCompactSerialization(accesToken);

jws.setKey(publicKey);

boolean signatureVerified = jws.verifySignature();

To get a PublicKey : if you put the content of the realm public you get from keycloak admin

         public PublicKey getPublicKey(String fileName) {

File f = new File(fileName);

try (FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);

DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(fis);) {

               byte[] keyBytes = new byte[(int) f.length()];

               dis.readFully(keyBytes);

               dis.close();

               // convert to der format

               String pem = new String(keyBytes);

               pem = pem.replaceAll("-----BEGIN (.*)-----", "");

               pem = pem.replaceAll("-----END (.*)----", "");

               pem = pem.replaceAll("\r\n", "");

               pem = pem.replaceAll("\n", "");

                byte[] der = Base64.getDecoder().decode(pem); // java 8

               X509EncodedKeySpec spec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(der);

               KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance(RSA);

               return kf.generatePublic(spec);

 

        } catch (IOException | InvalidKeySpecException | NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {

                throw new RuntimeException("Failed to load public key from file '" + fileName + "'", e);

        }

        }

 

With Java 8, it is quite simple too

               String[]  tokenParts  = accessToken.split("\\.");

// detect algo from tokenParts[0] or put "SHA256withRSA” (for “RS256”)

                    String jwtSignAlgo = "SHA256withRSA";

         String jwtInputString = tokenParts[0] + “.” + tokenParts[1];

         String jwtDecodedSign = new String(Base64.getUrlDecoder().decode(tokenParts[2]);

         Signature verifier = Signature.getInstance(jwtSignAlgo);

         verifier.initVerify(publicKey);

         verifier.update(jwtInputString.getBytes("UTF-8"));

         boolean signatureVerified = verifier.verify(jwtDecodedSign);

 

 

gerard

 

 

From: keycloak-user-bounces@lists.jboss.org [mailto:keycloak-user-bounces@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Stian Thorgersen
Sent: vendredi 6 mai 2016 07:33
To: Aikeaguinea
Cc: keycloak-user
Subject: Re: [keycloak-user] Validating JWT tokens

 

 

 

On 4 May 2016 at 18:37, Aikeaguinea <aikeaguinea@xsmail.com> wrote:

Figured it out, kinda. I have to use the Realm public key, and at least
in jwt.io it has to begin with "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----" and end with
"-----END PUBLIC KEY-----" -- these can't be omitted.

If I try using the Realm certificate, it won't work, however, whether or
not I use "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----"/"-----END CERTIFICATE-----".

If I use the validator at http://kjur.github.io/jsjws/tool_jwt.html and
select "default X509 Certificate (RSA z4) it tells me "Error: malformed
X.509 certificate PEM (code:003)"

I can use the Realm public key for validating the JWT, but shouldn't the
certificate work as well?

 

The certificate is only used by SAML, so no you can't verify the JWT with the certificate only the public key.

 


On Wed, May 4, 2016, at 12:00 PM, Aikeaguinea wrote:
> I have a client with a service account and credentials using Signed Jwt.
> Authentication works fine. The service uses
> org.keycloak.adapters.authentication.ClientCredentialsProviderUtils#setClientCredentials
> to create the JWT token and set the headers, and I get back a JWT
> containing an access token from Keycloak.
>
> However, when I use jwt.io to look at the access token, I can't validate
> the signature. This is true whether I use the client Certificate (from
> the client's Credentials tab), the Realm public key, or the Realm
> Certificate. In addition, I have generated the client's public key from
> the certificate using
>
> keytool -exportcert -alias x -keypass y -storepass z -rfc -keystore
> client-keystore.jks | openssl x509 -inform pem -pubkey
>
> on the jks file supplied when I generated the client credentials, and
> that doesn't work either.
>
> We've also been having trouble validating the signature programmatically
> using Java.
>
> Any idea why I might be seeing this?
>
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