[OAUTH-WG] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-oauth-access-token-jwt-12: (with COMMENT)
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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-oauth-access-token-jwt-12: (with COMMENT)
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Benjamin Kaduk has entered the following ballot position for draft-ietf-oauth-access-token-jwt-12: No Objection When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this introductory paragraph, however.) Please refer to https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html for more information about IESG DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-access-token-jwt/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMENT: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Section 2.1 JWT access tokens MUST include this media type in the "typ" header parameter to explicitly declare that the JWT represents an access token complying with this profile. Per the definition of "typ" in Section 4.1.9 of [RFC7515], it is RECOMMENDED that the "application/" prefix be omitted. [...] Just to check: is the reason this is only RECOMMENDED just because that's the requirement level that RFC 7515 used? AFAIK we can be more stringent here and just always require it to appear as "at+jwt", to simplify processing, if that is compatible with existing deployments (or we are willing to declare them non-conformant). (Section 4 would change accordingly if this text changes.) Section 2.2 Why does "iat" get an extra sentence describing the claim in addition to "as defined in [reference]" but not iss/exp/jti/etc.? Section 2.2.1 response (e.g., via the implicit flow) or after one or more token exchanges (e.g., obtaining a fresh access token using a refresh token, or exchanging one access token for another via [RFC8693]). nit: RFC 8693 doesn't effectuate token exchange; the protocol it specifies does. So "via the token exchange mechanism of [RFC8693]" or "via [RFC8693] procedures" or such seems more grammatically correct. Section 2.2.2 Any additional identity attribute whose semantic is well described by an entry in the JSON Web Token (JWT) IANA registry introduced in [RFC7519] SHOULD be encoded using the corresponding claim name. Note that the JWT IANA registry includes the claims found in Section 5.1 of [OpenID.Core]. I assume that ths "SHOULD be encoded using the corresponding claim name" just refers to the claim name used, and is not advising that all identity attributes be always included. If so, perhaps a few more words would help clarify, such as "if that attribute is to be included in the JWT access token" at the end of the sentence. Semantically it would also work to start the sentence with "when being included", but IMO that would detract from the focus of the sentence. Authorization servers including resource owner attributes in JWT access tokens should exercise care and verify that all privacy requirements are met, as discussed in Section 6. I'd suggest to s/should/need to/. Section 2.2.3 All the individual scope strings in the "scope" claim MUST have meaning for the resources indicated in the "aud" claim. See Section 5 for more considerations about the relationship between scope strings and resources indicated by the "aud" claim. ["aud" vs "resource?] Section 2.2.3.1 An authorization server wanting to include such attributes in a JWT access token SHOULD use as claim types the "groups","roles" and "entitlements" attributes of the "User" resource schema defined by Section 4.1.2 of [RFC7643]). I do see that we go on to clarify that we register JWT claims for "groups", "roles", and "entitlements" and recommend encoding guidance for the values of these claims, but I'm still stumbling over the phrase "claim types" here. What is a "claim type"? I suspect from context that it is meant to refer to a "claim name" as recorded in the JWT Claims registry, but I'm not 100% certain. It might also help readability to split this into two sentences: "use as claims [list]. The semantic contents of these claims are desribed in their definitions as attributes of [...]", since the current wording has me trying to use "attributes" in a JWT context, but it's intended to clarify the RFC 7643 reference. Authorization servers SHOULD encode the corresponding claim values according to the guidance defined in [RFC7643]. In particular, a Why is this only a "SHOULD"? We are defining these JWT claims, so we can nail down exactly what they contain. non-normative example of "groups" attribute can be found in Section 8.2 of [RFC7643]. No specific vocabulary is provided for "roles" and "entitlements". Similarly, we may want to be more concrete about "roles" and "entitlements" if we don't already later in this document. Section 3 This section is titled "Requesting a JWT Access Token" but the contents don't really seem to provide a procedure for specifically requesting a JWT access token. (nit) the "exp" claim in the example is from 2018; we might want to use something a little more "current" to time of actual publication. Is the provided "state" in the example sufficiently long to provide CSRF protection (as is recommended by RFC 6749)? Section 4 Authorization servers SHOULD use OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Metadata [RFC8414] to advertise to resource servers their signing keys via "jwks_uri" and what "iss" claim value to expect via the issuer metadata value. Alternatively, authorization servers (nit) please use consistent formatting and terminology for the "jwks_uri" and "issuer" metadata values. o If the JWT access token is encrypted, decrypt it using the keys and algorithms that the resource server specified during registration. If encryption was negotiated with the authorization server at registration time and the incoming JWT access token is not encrypted, the resource server SHOULD reject it. Why is this only a SHOULD and not a MUST? o The resource server MUST validate the signature of all incoming JWT access tokens according to [RFC7515] using the algorithm specified in the JWT alg Header Parameter. The resource server MUST reject any JWT in which the value of "alg" is "none". The resource server MUST use the keys provided by the authorization server. Would the algorithm verification of Sections 3.1 and 3.2 of RFC 8725 be relevant here? Also, might local policy decide in the future to blanket reject (then-)weak algorithms that are not "none"? o The current time MUST be before the time represented by the "exp" claim. RFC 7519 talk about an optional small leeway, "usually no more than a few minutes" to account for clock skew; are we taking a stance one way or the other on such leeway? The resource server MUST handle errors as described in Section 3.1 of [RFC6750]. [...] I'm not sure that I saw anything before now in this document that limits its applicability to bearer tokens only. Do we need to start now? Section 5 Authorization servers should prevent scenarios where clients can affect the value of the "sub" claim in ways that could confuse resource servers. For example, if the authorization server elects to use the client_id as the "sub" value for access tokens issued client credentials grant, the authorization server should prevent clients to nit: missing word (maybe "using the client credentials grant"?) register an arbitrary client_id value, as this would allow malicious nit: s/to register/from registering/ To preventing cross-JWT confusion, authorization servers MUST use a nit: s/preventing/prevent/ Authorization servers should use particular care when handling requests that might lead to ambiguous authorization grants. For example: if a request includes multiple resource indicators, the authorization server should ensure that each scope string included in the resulting JWT access token, if any, can be unambiguously correlated to a specific resource among the ones listed in the "aud" claim. The details on how to recognize and mitigate this and other ambiguous situations is highly scenario-dependent, hence out of scope for this profile. Only using single-valued "aud" would also help prevent this kind of mix-up, right? Do we have a recommendation for single-valued "aud" in one of the BCPs that we could point to? Authorization servers should not rely on the use of different keys for signing OpenID Connect ID Tokens and JWT tokens as a method to nit: maybe s/should not/cannot/, since this is just a statement of fact? Section 6 As JWT access tokens carry information by value, it now becomes possible for clients and potentially even end users to directly peek inside the token claims collection. (nit?) "of unencrypted tokens"? token is visible to the client. Whenever client access to the access token content presents privacy issues for a given scenario, the authorization server should take explicit steps to prevent it. I suggest s/should/needs to/. In every scenario, the content of the JWT access token will eventually be accessible to the resource server. It's important to evaluate whether the resource server gained the proper entitlement to have access to any content received in form of claims, for example through user consent in some form, policies and agreements with the organization running the authorization servers, and so on. I feel like it might be helpful to call out here that claims like those including information about RO authentication (Section 2.2.1), identity claims (Section 2.2.2), and authorization claims (Section 2.2.3) are ones that not all RSes should be entitled to access. I'm not sure about the best way to indicate this, but perhaps another sentence at the end about "For example, a user might not wish to consent to granting a given RS information about any of the non-mandatory claims enumerated in Section 2.2 (and subsections)" would help. Section 8.1 URLs for the OIDC documents would be helpful. I think RFC 7523 does not need to be normative. Section 8.2 Please include the draft name for [OAuth2.Security.BestPractices] (I assume it's draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics). We have a "MUST handle errors as described in Section 3.1 of [RFC6750]" which would make RFC 6750 a normative reference (but one of my comments suggests that we may not want to limit ourselves to just those procedures).
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