The JWT Policy helps you to validate JSON Web Tokens (JWT) by providing a signing key or a JSON Web Key Set (JWK(S)). You can also require claims and strip them to forward them as header to the backend API.

Configuration Options

Basic Configuration

OptionDescriptionPossible ValuesDefault
Signing Key or URL to a JWK(S)

Specify a Base-64 encoded signing key or a URL to a JWK(S) to validate JWT.

Self-signed certificates are currently not supported.

  • a Base-64 encoded string or
  • a URL to a JWK(S)
FQDN path automatically set for your PAS installation
Key ID (kid) of JWK(S)

Specify the key id of the JWK(S) in this field if you provided a JWK(S) URL.

a valid string-

Required Claims

All standard claims, custom claims and ID token fields are available (case sensitive). A special value of access_token will forward the entire encoded token. Nested claims can be accessed by using the JavaScript dot syntax (e.g: address.country, address.formatted).

OptionDescriptionPossible ValuesDefault

Claim

Specify a list of required claims. If a required claim is not present, access will be rejected.


a string-

Value

Determines the content of the claim.

a string-

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Forward Claim Information

Fields from the JWT can be set as headers and forwarded to the API. All standard claims, custom claims and ID token fields are available (case sensitive). A special value of access_token will forward the entire encoded token. Nested claims can be accessed by using the JavaScript dot syntax (e.g: address.country, address.formatted).

OptionDescriptionPossible ValuesDefault

Field

Specify a list of fields from the JWT to be forwarded to the API as a header.

a string

-

Header

Holds the value of the Field.

a string

-

Click Add to create more rows in the table. Click Delete to remove selected rows.

Advanced Configuration

OptionDescriptionPossible ValuesDefault
Require Signed JWT (JWS)

Specify whether JWTs must be cryptographically signed and verified (JWS).

It is stongly recommended to enable this option.

  • enabled
  • disabled
enabled
Strip TokensEnable if the Authorization header or token query parameter should be removed before forwarding traffic to the API.
  • enabled
  • disabled
disabled
Maximum Clock SkewSpecify the maximum allowed clock skew in seconds when validating exp (expiry) and nbf (not before) claims. 0 implies default behavior.a valid integer0
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