FLAsk support for oidc Access Tokens
Project description
FLAsk support for handling oidc Access Tokens - FLAAT
Now with support for AIOHTTP (>= v0.5.0)
Installation
Actually the code should just run straight from github. Python dependencies include requests, flask, json and functools. Most of which are pretty standard.
Just source install.sh to get a pyve with the dependencies installed:
pip install flaat
TL;DR
FLAAT is here to provide the simplest way to verify OIDC Access Tokens. The goal is that FLAAT is a tool that can be used to very easily make access decisions or not. Priority is on ease of use, which comes with a few potential drawbacks.
Documentation
First off there's examples that demonstrate the functionality
(example-flask.py and example-aio.py)
They provide an API that is protected
with flaat
.
flaat
allows protecting REST interfaces with simple decorators like:
@flaat.login_required()
flaat
also supports complex group membership checking. To match two of
the given groups, use:
@flaat.group_required(group=['admins@kit.edu', 'employee@kit.edu', 'member@kit.edu'],
claim='eduperson_scoped_affiliation', match=2)
The claim parameter allows selecting the OIDC claim in which to look for group membership.
Once started you can test calls to the example like this:
curl http://localhost:8080/valid_user -H "Authorization: Bearer `oidc-token deep`"
or
http localhost:8080/group_test_hdf "Authorization: Bearer `oidc-token unity`"
or
Please find details for usage in the examples and in the respective docstrings.
Your Bearer token can be any OIDC Access Token.
Examples
FLAAT comes with two examples:
example-flask.py
/example-aio.py
, rhat uses the three decorators provided by FLAAT:- login_required
- group_required
That protect the functions they decorate
You can run it like
python3 ./example-flask.py`
python3 ./example-aio.py` You can run queries against it like:
http localhost:8080/info "Authorization: Bearer $OIDC"
http localhost:8080/valid_user "Authorization: Bearer $OIDC"
http localhost:8080/valid_user "Authorization: Bearer `oidc-token unity`"
curl localhost:8080/valid_user -H "Authorization: Bearer `oidc-token egi`"
http localhost:8080/group_test_iam "Authorization: Bearer `oidc-token google`"
get_userinfo.py
is a commandline application for testing. It uses FLAAT in a similar way as the examples Examples:
./get_userinfo.py `oidc-token indigo-iam`
What does FLAAT do?
FLAAT tries to get as much information out of the AT to determine whether or not the function it protects should be called or not.
FLAAT only operates on the OIDC Access Token, called AT.
-
FLAAT firstly analyses the AT to see if the AT is a json web token (JWT). In that case there may be an
exp
claim, which is used.In case the AT is JWT, FLAAT will also query the userinfo endpoint of the OP found in the
iss
claim. -
For cases in which the OP cannot be determined, FLAAT offers several ways to determine the issuing OP. You can provide a list of trusted OPs, a file that cointains a list of trusted OPs, or a single OP. In the case of lists, an OP_hint can be specified, which is used to filter the available list of trusted OPs.
Based on list and OP_hint, FLAAT queries all provided OPs for their config and then for their userinfo endpoint, to evaluate whether the AT is possibly provided by them.
Note: For being nice to OPs that are known to issue JWTs, these are excluded from the search.
-
In case the user provides a valid client_id and client_secret, the token introspection endpoint of the given OP is queried.
Issues
FLAAT works under the assumption that ATs cannot be used to access the userinfo endpoint after the AT expired. This does not seem to be the case. If you need to be strict on lifetime checking, please obtain a client_id and client_secret from the OPs that you work with.
Compatibility
Tested OIDC Providers are
- IAM of the Deep Hybrid Datacloud project -- https://iam.deep-hybrid-datacloud.eu/
- EGI -- https://aai.egi.eu/oidc/
- Unity / B2Access as used in the Helmholtz-Data-Federation -- https://unity.helmholtz-data-federation.de/oauth2/
- KIT's Shibboleth installation -- https://oidc.scc.kit.edu/auth/realms/kit/
- Google -- https://accounts.google.com/
- EduTEAMS -- https://proxy.demo.eduteams.org
Recommendation
For obtaining OIDC access tokens on the commandline you might want to use oidc-agent
License
FLAAT is provided under the MIT License
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