OAuth2UserService supports signed and/or encrypted UserInfo Response

[knoobie]

Expected Behavior

The implementations of OAuth2UserService support the application/jwt content type when fetching the UserInfo resource.

Related Spec Info:

If the UserInfo Response is signed and/or encrypted, then the Claims are returned in a JWT and the content-type MUST be application/jwt.

OpenID Connect Core 1.0 - 5.3.2. Successful UserInfo Response

Current Behavior

The implementations of OAuth2UserService are DefaultOAuth2UserService and OidcUserService. These implementations only support the application/json content type when fetching the UserInfo resource. Resulting in 406 Not Acceptable when the given identity provider only allows application/jwt or this error when provided with a custom restOperations which allows application/jwt:

spring-security/oauth2/oauth2-client/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/oauth2/client/userinfo/DefaultOAuth2UserService.java

Lines 139 to 147 in eff4cdc

	catch (UnknownContentTypeException ex) {
	String errorMessage = "An error occurred while attempting to retrieve the UserInfo Resource from '"
	+ userRequest.getClientRegistration().getProviderDetails().getUserInfoEndpoint().getUri()
	+ "': response contains invalid content type '" + ex.getContentType().toString() + "'. "
	+ "The UserInfo Response should return a JSON object (content type 'application/json') "
	+ "that contains a collection of name and value pairs of the claims about the authenticated End-User. "
	+ "Please ensure the UserInfo Uri in UserInfoEndpoint for Client Registration '"
	+ userRequest.getClientRegistration().getRegistrationId() + "' conforms to the UserInfo Endpoint, "
	+ "as defined in OpenID Connect 1.0: 'https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#UserInfo'";

Context

The identity provider we have to use is build with "high security in mind" and forces the use of signed JWT.

More in depth information and a workaround I found while developing: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59876435/spring-fails-for-userinfo-endpoint-returning-signed-jwt

[jgrandja]

@knoobie To support signed and/or encrypted UserInfo Response, we would need to add a new implementation of OAuth2UserService or maybe enhance the existing OidcUserService. The solution (workaround) provided in the SO post is the correct approach - register a custom OAuth2UserService that is capable of handling a signed and/or encrypted UserInfo Response.

Let's leave this issue open and see if there is demand for this feature, via upvotes.

[knoobie]

@jgrandja Thanks for your quick look at it!

I'm wondering if it would be still possible to improve the current implementation of DefaultOAuth2UserService to reduce the amount of boilerplate / copy paste we have to implement - like e.g. changing the getResponse method from private to protected and add RestOperations restOperations as parameter. The OAuth2UserRequest should have all the information regarding the used ClientRegistration. I'm happy to create a PR for that, if you think it's worth it.

Before:

private ResponseEntity<Map<String, Object>> getResponse(OAuth2UserRequest userRequest, 
RequestEntity<?> request) {
  // ...
}

After:

protected ResponseEntity<Map<String, Object>> getResponse(RestOperations restOperations, 
OAuth2UserRequest userRequest, RequestEntity<?> request) {
  // ...
}

[jgrandja]

@knoobie I'm not sure it makes sense to pass RestOperations as a parameter, given that it's a member of DefaultOAuth2UserService.

[knoobie]

@jgrandja The idea behind it was to allow the usage of the already configured Restoperations (private member) within the protected overwritten getResponse method. I could change the field to protected as well, but wasn't sure if that's something you would go along with.

Edit: But allowing getResponse to be protected should be enough to reduce the whole copy paste of the class - the Restoperations is just a nice to have / the icing on the cake.

[jgrandja]

@knoobie

allowing getResponse() to be protected

I still don't see the value in exposing this since all it does is catch Exception's and format the message before throwing.

We typically only "open" things up when there is value in reuse. The reason we keep things closed to start with is because it's fewer public API's we need to support and it allows us to make changes passively.

If there is a good reason to open things up because it allows greater reuse than we can consider it. But as far as I see it now, opening up getResponse() doesn't really provide that much benefit of reuse.

Maybe you could provide a code snippet of what you are trying to achieve?

Also, can you please open a new ticket so we can continue the discussion there since this is not related to the main issue.

[knoobie]

@jgrandja Created #9629 for it. Thanks for your feedback here!

[florianberthe]

Hi,

Upvoted because I encountered a same issue. But how to make OAuth2UserService smarter ? I mean: how to keep existing implementation and add application/jwt the implementation dependant of the received content type ?
My use-case needs to support multiple OpenID connect with various configurations.