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security fix unauthorized tokens could be used to access a protected ressource #34

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szuecs wants to merge 2 commits into gin-gonic:master from szuecs:bugfix/jwt-does-not-proof-signature

szuecs commented Mar 30, 2015

It's important to validate the token before granting access.
https://github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go -> "Parse and Verify"

I hope it is the right way to use net/http, I did not understand how to use c.Fail() here, because I could not create an Error.

regards, sandor

szuecs added 2 commits

March 30, 2015 23:11


          security fix unatohrized tokens could be used to access a protected r…

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          gin-based error handling

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szuecs commented Mar 31, 2015

As far as I understand https://github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go/blob/master/jwt.go it does not lead to a security issue right now, but in my opinion it's internal details and may change in the future.
I saw that the initial commit https://github.com/gin-gonic/contrib/blob/0de68a89e80e75ca93ec8ff91ad9bbd3dcd72794/jwt/jwt.go checked token.Valid and it seems better fit with gin error handling than in my original pull request.

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Force users to validate the alg to protect against jwt vulnerability. #50

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