fix(nextjs): keep the ID token claims in the session cookie and switch organizations without the in-memory session - #550
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…h organizations without the in-memory session The Next.js session lives in an HttpOnly JWT cookie, but organization switching, the current-organization lookup and the ID-token fallback of the user profile still went through the legacy Node client, whose session is a process-local memory cache. After a server restart, on another serverless instance, or once the middleware had refreshed the tokens in the Edge runtime, that cache was empty or stale and those operations failed while the user was still signed in. - Store the ID token claims (minus single-use protocol claims) in the session cookie at sign-in, on organization switch and on refresh. - Read them back in getDecodedIdToken(); keep the in-memory session only as a fallback for cookies issued before this change. - Perform the organization_switch grant directly with the access token from the cookie and update the in-memory session best-effort afterwards. - Align the getUser() fallback with the React SDK (ID token claims). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Next.js package now stores filtered ID-token claims in the signed session cookie. Client profile and organization methods read cookie-backed claims and access tokens. Token refresh updates these claims, while organization switching uses a direct token-endpoint request. ChangesCookie-backed session claims
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Affected users may lose their session when large claim sets exceed cookie limits, while unsafe endpoint configuration or redirects can expose access tokens and client credentials. These issues should be resolved before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AsgardeoNextClient
participant SessionCookie
participant TokenEndpoint
participant InMemorySession
AsgardeoNextClient->>SessionCookie: Read access token and ID-token claims
AsgardeoNextClient->>TokenEndpoint: POST organization_switch request
TokenEndpoint-->>AsgardeoNextClient: Return token response
AsgardeoNextClient->>InMemorySession: Best-effort session update
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In `@packages/nextjs/src/AsgardeoNextClient.ts`:
- Line 446: Validate that tokenEndpoint uses HTTPS before the fetch call in the
token request flow, and reject non-HTTPS endpoints before sending any access
token or client credentials. Keep the existing fetch behavior unchanged for
valid HTTPS endpoints.
- Line 446: Update the fetch call in the token request flow to set redirect
handling to error, preventing 307/308 redirects from forwarding
credential-bearing POST data. Add a test that exercises a redirect response and
verifies no second token-bearing request is sent.
In `@packages/nextjs/src/utils/SessionManager.ts`:
- Around line 154-158: The decodedIdToken filtering in SessionManager must limit
persisted claims to the session cookie budget instead of copying every
non-transient claim. Update the claim handling around decodedIdToken and the
session JWT serialization to use an explicit allowlist or enforce a documented
serialized-cookie size limit with a safe fallback, while retaining required
claims and ensuring sign-in and refresh still produce a usable session.
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Sensitive Data Exposure (CWE-319): Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Moderate
Require HTTPS before sending token credentials.
This request sends the access token and client credentials to the configured tokenEndpoint. Reject non-HTTPS endpoints before calling fetch.
Proposed fix
+ const tokenUrl: URL = new URL(tokenEndpoint);
+ if (tokenUrl.protocol !== 'https:') {
+ throw new Error('The token endpoint must use HTTPS.');
+ }
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- const response: Response = await fetch(tokenEndpoint, {
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| const response: Response = await fetch(tokenEndpoint, { | |
| const tokenUrl: URL = new URL(tokenEndpoint); | |
| if (tokenUrl.protocol !== 'https:') { | |
| throw new Error('The token endpoint must use HTTPS.'); | |
| } | |
| const response: Response = await fetch(tokenUrl, { |
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In `@packages/nextjs/src/AsgardeoNextClient.ts` at line 446, Validate that
tokenEndpoint uses HTTPS before the fetch call in the token request flow, and
reject non-HTTPS endpoints before sending any access token or client
credentials. Keep the existing fetch behavior unchanged for valid HTTPS
endpoints.
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The default redirect behavior for the Fetch API is to automatically follow redirects [1][2]. The redirect option, which defaults to follow, determines how the browser handles server-side redirects [1][3]. Regarding POST body preservation and HTTP status codes: 1. Status Codes 307 and 308: These status codes are intended to guarantee that the request method and body are not altered during a redirect [4][5]. In the Fetch API, when a redirect is followed, the specification is designed to preserve the original method and body for 307 and 308 redirects [6]. 2. Important Nuance (Body Streams): While 307 and 308 redirects are intended to preserve the body, the Fetch API may fail with a network error if the request body is a stream that has already been consumed or cannot be replayed (e.g., if the body source is null) [4][5]. Because the Fetch API does not store the entire request body in memory by default to avoid negative performance implications, replaying a stream-based body is not always possible [4][7]. 3. Other Status Codes (301, 302, 303): In contrast to 307/308, status codes 301, 302, and 303 often trigger a conversion to a GET request, in which case the original POST body and specific request headers are stripped [6]. If you need to manually handle redirects (for example, to inspect the response before choosing whether to redirect, or to bypass automatic behavior), you can set the redirect option to manual [1][8]. When set to manual, the Fetch API returns an opaque-redirect filtered response instead of automatically following the redirect [3][9].
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- 1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RequestInit
- 2: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/redirect
- 3: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
- 4: GitHub issue 1662 in whatwg/fetch (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps-github/2023May/0780.html
- 6: GitHub issue 1711 in whatwg/fetch (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 7: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps-github/2023May/0783.html
- 8: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65413709/how-do-i-redirect-a-user-after-login-with-fetch
- 9: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39735496/redirect-after-a-fetch-post-call
Sensitive Data Exposure (CWE-200): Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Reachability: External · Exploitability: Difficult
Reject redirects for the credential-bearing token request.
A 307 or 308 redirect can forward the POST body, including token and possibly client_secret. Set redirect: 'error' and add a test that verifies no second token-bearing request occurs.
Proposed fix
const response: Response = await fetch(tokenEndpoint, {
body: body.toString(),
headers: {
Accept: 'application/json',
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
...(useBasicAuth ? {Authorization: `Basic ${btoa(`${clientId}:${clientSecret}`)}`} : {}),
},
method: 'POST',
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In `@packages/nextjs/src/AsgardeoNextClient.ts` at line 446, Update the fetch call
in the token request flow to set redirect handling to error, preventing 307/308
redirects from forwarding credential-bearing POST data. Add a test that
exercises a redirect response and verifies no second token-bearing request is
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| return Object.fromEntries( | ||
| Object.entries(decodedIdToken).filter( | ||
| ([claim, value]: [string, unknown]) => value !== undefined && !this.TRANSIENT_ID_TOKEN_CLAIMS.includes(claim), | ||
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Limit the persisted claims to the cookie budget.
Lines 154-158 copy every non-transient claim into the session JWT. ID tokens can contain large group lists or custom attributes. Together with the access token and refresh token, this can exceed browser per-cookie limits. The browser can reject the replacement cookie, and sign-in or refresh then completes without a usable session.
Use an explicit claim allowlist or enforce a serialized-cookie size limit with a defined fallback.
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In `@packages/nextjs/src/utils/SessionManager.ts` around lines 154 - 158, The
decodedIdToken filtering in SessionManager must limit persisted claims to the
session cookie budget instead of copying every non-transient claim. Update the
claim handling around decodedIdToken and the session JWT serialization to use an
explicit allowlist or enforce a documented serialized-cookie size limit with a
safe fallback, while retaining required claims and ensuring sign-in and refresh
still produce a usable session.
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Problem
The Next.js session is stored in an HttpOnly JWT cookie, but several operations still went through the legacy Node client, which keeps its session in a process-local
memory-cachestore:switchOrganization()resolved{{accessToken}}/{{username}}from that store (and required the user to be "signed in" there),getCurrentOrganization()and the ID-token fallback ofgetUser()/getUserProfile()read the ID token from it.After a server restart, on another serverless instance, or once the middleware has refreshed the tokens in the Edge runtime (which only updates the cookie), that store is empty or stale: organization switching fails and the current organization is lost even though the user is still signed in. The ID token was never persisted anywhere the server could reach it again.
Fix
idTokenClaims), minus the single-use protocol claims (at_hash,c_hash,nonce,sid, ...) to keep the cookie small. They are written at sign-in (embedded and redirect flows) and on organization switch, and refreshed from theid_tokenof the refresh response in the middleware.AsgardeoNextClient.getDecodedIdToken()decodes a given token directly, otherwise returns the claims from the cookie, and only falls back to the in-memory session for cookies issued before this change.switchOrganization()performs theorganization_switchgrant itself with the access token from the cookie (honouringendpoints.tokenandtokenRequest.authMethod) and updates the in-memory session best-effort for the remaining legacy code paths.getUser()fallback now mirrors the React SDK (claims of the ID token) instead of the legacy client'sgetUser.Testing
SessionManagerclaims round trip,handleRefreshTokenclaim carry-over/refresh, andAsgardeoNextClientcookie-backedgetDecodedIdToken/getCurrentOrganization/switchOrganization(77 tests pass).pnpm lint,pnpm buildandtsc --noEmitfor@asgardeo/nextjs.Changeset included (
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