[keycloak-user] Use refresh token for authentication

[Sebastian Olscher]

Hello guys,

we ´re using the "Direct Grant Access" flow described in chapter 15 in the keycloak users documentation. As we understood, the following steps are necessary:

1.: Do the token request with "username/password" and "grant_type=password" to the token server (keycloak).
2.: The token response from keycloak contains an "access_token" and a "refresh_token".
3.: Normally, the client uses the "access_token" within the HTTP-Header (Authorization Bearer *access_token*) to do the authentication.

Everything works as expected. We have found that you can also use the "refresh_token" instead of the "access_token" in step 3 to do the authentication and it will be still successful. From our point of view, this is possible, because the keycloak-wildfly-security-module does not check the token-type. But, from our understanding the "refresh_token" is not intended to do the authentication, so this should not work, right? So my two questions are:

1.: Why is the authentication with the "refresh_token" successful?
2.: The "refresh_token" in the token response is defined as an optional element within the OAUth-2.0 specification, so is there any possibility to prevent keycloak returning it?

Thanks,
Sebastian
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