[Bug] Issuer is validated despite setting 'ValidateIssuer' to false

[dkrasnove]

Which version of Microsoft Identity Web are you using?
Note that to get help, you need to run the latest version.
Microsoft Identity Web 1.3.0

Where is the issue?

• Web app
  • Sign-in users
  • Sign-in users and call web APIs
• Web API
  • Protected web APIs (validating tokens)
  • Protected web APIs (validating scopes)
  • Protected web APIs call downstream web APIs
• Token cache serialization
  • In-memory caches
  • Session caches
  • Distributed caches
• Other (please describe)

Is this a new or an existing app?
a. The app is in production and I have upgraded to a new version of Microsoft Identity Web.

Repro

Startup.cs

services.AddAuthentication()
                .AddMicrosoftIdentityWebApi(
                (jwtOpt) =>
                {
                    Configuration.Bind("AzureAdB2C", jwtOpt);
                    jwtOpt.TokenValidationParameters.ValidateIssuer = false;
                },
                (msIdOpt) => Configuration.Bind("AzureAdB2C", msIdOpt));

appsettings.json

 "AzureAdB2C": {
    "Instance": "https://mytenant.b2clogin.com",
    "ClientId": "ccb2a9f5-3b90-4f01-b4de-619daa1b9e49",
    "ClientSecret": "*****",
    "Domain": "mytenant.onmicrosoft.com",
    "SignUpSignInPolicyId": "B2C_1A_Signup_Signin"
  }

JWT

{
  "typ": "JWT",
  "alg": "RS256",
  "kid": "0kcuEIFYUmeulxXnEdH43prYHw3HVshbaNlXyRpgQb4"
}.{
  "iss": "https://mytenant.b2clogin.com/97d559f9-30de-42c5-b79a-1645d748e84d/v2.0/",
  "exp": 1606881975,
  "nbf": 1606874775,
  "aud": "3ff65921-74c1-4ec6-8c37-f012ca63811e",
  "tid": "fe2738ba-6955-4bcd-ba5d-a1fef14fc86a",
  "email": "johndoe@example.com",
  "given_name": "John",
  "family_name": "Doe",
  "name": "John Doe",
  "idp": "myIdP",
  "sub": "67d4fe2f-f68b-4580-ad78-5c0640f4cf30",
  "emails": [
    "johndoe@example.com"
  ],
  "scp": "user_impersonation",
  "azp": "48ff8d08-0206-4f8a-9c90-084e6eae7d36",
  "ver": "1.0",
  "iat": 1606874775
}.[Signature]

Expected behavior
Since JwtBearerOptions.TokenValidationParameters.ValidateIssuer is set to false, I would expect the issuer not to be validated.

Actual behavior
The issuer is validated anyway. This is a problem because it fails validation with the default AadIssuerValidator.

Possible solution
Workaround (Register a dummy [or custom] IssuerValidator):
Startup.cs

services.AddAuthentication()
                .AddMicrosoftIdentityWebApi(
                (jwtOpt) =>
                {
                    Configuration.Bind("AzureAdB2C", jwtOpt);
                    jwtOpt.TokenValidationParameters.IssuerValidator = (a, b, c) => a;
                },
                (msIdOpt) => Configuration.Bind("AzureAdB2C", msIdOpt));

Possible Solution:
microsoft-identityweb/src/Microsoft.Identity.Web/WebApiExtensions/MicrosoftIdentityWebApiAuthenticationBuilderExtensions.cs, line 193

// If the developer registered an IssuerValidator, do not overwrite it
 if (options.TokenValidationParameters.ValidateIssuer && // <--- Add This
     options.TokenValidationParameters.IssuerValidator == null)
{
   // Instead of using the default validation (validating against a single tenant, as we do in line of business apps),
   // we inject our own multi-tenant validation logic (which even accepts both v1.0 and v2.0 tokens)
   MicrosoftIdentityIssuerValidatorFactory microsoftIdentityIssuerValidatorFactory =
   serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<MicrosoftIdentityIssuerValidatorFactory>();

   options.TokenValidationParameters.IssuerValidator =
   microsoftIdentityIssuerValidatorFactory.GetAadIssuerValidator(options.Authority).Validate;
}

[dkrasnove]

Possibly related to #168

[jmprieur]

Thanks @dkrasnove for this heads-up and your suggestion.

[jennyf19]

Thanks @dkrasnove. i have a linked PR above w/your suggestion. I think this will go in our 1.4 release next week.

[dkrasnove]

Thanks. Also FYI, this same bug exists in MicrosoftIdentityWebAppAuthenticationBuilderExtensions. There is also probably an issue with audience validation when ValidateAudience is set to false for identical reasons in the web API handler.

That's all I've noticed for now!

[jennyf19]

@dkrasnove yes, good point. have added it as well. thanks again.

[jennyf19]

Included in 1.4 Release.

[andreslon]

error is happening again on 1.16.0 version :(
it's solved using the "Possible solution" written at the beginning of this thread

services.AddAuthentication(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme) .AddMicrosoftIdentityWebApi( (jwtOpt) => jwtOpt.TokenValidationParameters.ValidateIssuer = false, (msIdOpt) => builder.Configuration.Bind("AzureAd", msIdOpt ));