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fix(backend): reject uncategorized JWTs presented as session tokens - #10257
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Clerk stamps every session token with a `cat` header, but OIDC id_tokens minted for third-party OAuth clients carry none while being signed by the same instance key. authenticateRequest() and verifyToken() now treat a missing category as non-session, so an id_token can no longer replay as a session for the user in `sub`. The handshake verifier keeps tolerating an absent category because the edge session-minter signs handshake tokens without one. Refs AISEC-21 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| JWTs without a `cat` header are no longer accepted as session tokens: `authenticateRequest()` returns signed out (`token-type-mismatch`) and `verifyToken()` returns `token-invalid`. This includes OIDC `id_token`s issued by Clerk. Tests that sign their own session tokens must add `cat: 'cl_B7d4PD111AAA'` to the header. |
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🟡 Minor · Validate the cookie category before the no-client-UAT handshake shortcut. · request.ts:630-659
packages/backend/src/tokens/request.ts:630-659
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winValidate the cookie category before the no-client-UAT handshake shortcut.
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__sessioncontains a decodable JWT withoutcatandclientUatis absent, the early presence-only branch returnsSessionTokenWithoutClientUATbeforehasNonSessionJwtCategoryruns. An eligible request enters the unauthenticated handshake flow instead of returning the required signed-outTokenTypeMismatchstate. Move the existing category guard before this branch. A session-category cookie still passes the guard and preserves legitimate handshake requests.Suggested fix
+ // Machine JWTs, JWT-template tokens and uncategorized tokens must not be accepted as + // session tokens (mirrors header path). + if ( + // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion + isMachineJwt(authenticateContext.sessionTokenInCookie!) || + // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion + hasNonSessionJwtCategory(authenticateContext.sessionTokenInCookie!) + ) { + return signedOut({ + tokenType: TokenType.SessionToken, + authenticateContext, + reason: AuthErrorReason.TokenTypeMismatch, + message: '', + }); + } + // This can eagerly run handshake since client_uat is SameSite=Strict in dev if (!hasActiveClient && hasSessionToken) { return handleMaybeHandshakeStatus(authenticateContext, AuthErrorReason.SessionTokenWithoutClientUAT, ''); @@ - // Machine JWTs, JWT-template tokens and uncategorized tokens must not be accepted as - // session tokens (mirrors header path). - if ( - // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion - isMachineJwt(authenticateContext.sessionTokenInCookie!) || - // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion - hasNonSessionJwtCategory(authenticateContext.sessionTokenInCookie!) - ) { - return signedOut({ - tokenType: TokenType.SessionToken, - authenticateContext, - reason: AuthErrorReason.TokenTypeMismatch, - message: '', - }); - } -🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @packages/backend/src/tokens/request.ts:
- Around line 630-659: Move the existing `isMachineJwt` and
`hasNonSessionJwtCategory` guard in the cookie session-token flow before the
no-client-UAT handshake shortcut. Ensure machine and uncategorized JWTs return
the signed-out `TokenTypeMismatch` state first, while session-category cookies
still reach the legitimate handshake path.
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Description
Clerk stamps every session token with a
catprotected-header category, but other JWT classes signed by the same instance key, such as the OIDCid_tokenissued to an OAuth application, carry no category at all. The session-token paths only rejected JWTs tagged with a different category, so a validly signed token with no category was accepted as a session for the user insub.authenticateRequest()now returns a signed-out state with reasontoken-type-mismatchfor a JWT with nocatin theAuthorizationheader or the__sessioncookie, matching the existing handling of machine and JWT-template tokens on those paths.verifyToken()returns atoken-invaliderror for such a token before resolving a signing key. JWT-template tokens remain verifiable throughverifyToken()for direct callers, and the ignore category is still accepted everywhere a session token is.The handshake verifier is unchanged: it continues to reject a present non-session category and to tolerate an absent one.
Self-signed test tokens must now include
cat: 'cl_B7d4PD111AAA'in their header to be accepted as session tokens; the shared fixtures in@clerk/backendhave been re-signed accordingly.Refs AISEC-21
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pnpm testruns as expected.pnpm buildruns as expected.Type of change
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