verify-rsa-jwt-cloudflare-worker

This is a lightweight library that verifies a JWT (JSON Web Token) signed with RS256. This is built for Cloudflare Workers.

Although, the project itself has no dependencies. If the runtime supports Web Standard APIs, it should just work :tm:

This package includes the Hono Middleware :fire:

It uses JWKS to verify a JWT. To fetch JWKS, you need to provide the JWKs endpoint URL to JWKS_URI.

Install

npm install verify-rsa-jwt-cloudflare-worker

Usage

Module Worker

import {
  getJwks,
  useKVStore,
  verify,
  VerifyRsaJwtEnv,
} from 'verify-rsa-jwt-cloudflare-worker';

export default {
  async fetch(request: Request, env: VerifyRsaJwtEnv): Promise<Response> {
    const token =
      request.headers.get('Authorization')?.replace(/Bearer\s+/i, '') || '';
    try {
      const jwks = await getJwks(env.JWKS_URI, useKVStore(env.VERIFY_RSA_JWT));
      const { payload } = await verify(token, jwks);
      // Then, you could validate the payload and return a response
      return new Response(JSON.stringify({ payload }), {
        headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
      });
    } catch (error: any) {
      return new Response((error as Error).message, { status: 401 });
    }
  },
};

wrangler.toml

name = "verify-rsa-jwt-cloudflare-worker"
compatibility_date = "2023-05-18"

[vars]
JWKS_URI = "https://<your-authentication-server-host>/.well-known/jwks.json"
VERIFY_RSA_JWT_JWKS_CACHE_KEY = ""

[[kv_namespaces]]
binding = "VERIFY_RSA_JWT"
id = "<ID CREATED BY WRANGLER>"
preview_id = "<ID CREATED BY WRANGLER>"

Hono Middleware

If you are working on a Cloudflare Workers based project, the following parameters can be set via wrangler.toml.

VerifyRsaJwtEnv

| Variable | Description | | ----------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | VERIFY_RSA_JWT | KVNamespace. It want to store downloaded JWKS | | VERIFY_RSA_JWT_JWKS_CACHE_KEY | Optional string to specify what key we want to sue to store JWKS. Default: verify-rsa-jwt-cloudflare-worker-jwks-cache-key | | JWKS_URI | A URI for downloading JWKS. Typically https://<host>/.well-known/jwks.json |

Additionally, or, if you are working on a non-Cloudflare Workers based project, such as Node.js, the following optional config values are available:

VerifyRsaJwtConfig

| Variable | Description | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | jwksUri | A URI for downloading JWKS. | | kvStore | Any storage manager that has get and put. It's used for storing JWKS. | | payloadValidator | Every authentication vendor would configure JWT payload differently. Please give a function that validates the payload and throw an error. | | verbose | A debug flag. |

Import

import { Hono } from 'hono';
import {
  verifyRsaJwt,
  getPayloadFromContext,
} from 'verify-rsa-jwt-cloudflare-worker';

Hono Middleware Usage

const app = new Hono()

app.use(
  '/auth/*',
  verifyRsaJwt({
    jwksUri: "https://<host>/.well-known/jwks.json",
    kvStore: // Anything that keeps a value, KVNamespace would work too.
    payloadValidator: ({payload}) => { /* Validate the payload, throw an error if invalid */ },
  })
)

app.get('/auth/page', (c) => {
  const claims = getPayloadFromContext(c)
  return c.text('You are authorized')
})

Test

Automated tests

Some tests use PEM files to create JWT tokens / imitate JWKS. You need the following setup to prepare them.

1. Create a .env file.

   echo PEM_NAME="test-pem" > .env

2. Run npm run gen-pem-keys to generate PEM files.

3. Then, as you may be familiar, test with npm test.

Manual test

For testing through src/worker.ts, you can:

1. Launch a local server

   npm run start src/worker.ts

2. cURL with your JWT!

   url -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-JWT>" http://127.0.0.1:<YOUR-DEV-SERVER-PORT>/

3. Then, if everything is set correctly, you'd expect to see something like this:

   {
     "payload": {
       "iss": " ... ",
       "sub": " ... ",
       "aud": " ... ",
       "iat": 1690401415,
       "exp": 1690487815,
       "azp": " ... ",
       "gty": " ... "
     }
   }

Development

Use Wrangler CLI

Please follow this document. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/get-started/guide/.

Use lefthook (option)

Please run lefthook install before creating a PR.

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