Safe password resets with json web tokens - Invalid token when decoding
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript, node.js
- Domain
- authentication, security
Research direction
No source file or test is named. Start by reproducing the password-reset token decoding flow described in the issue with jsonwebtoken 8.5.1, then inspect the reported catch error; done means identifying why the token is rejected and confirming the behavior with a focused reproduction.
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Description
Description
I am trying to put in place a safe password resets with json web tokens flow, where the first step of the forgot password flow is:
... the user is receiving an email with the reset link, the URL contains two query string parameters (token and email):
I believe this encode part is working fine, where I am having problems is in the second step:
all 3 previous console logs are printed with the expected data, but this one don't console.log('4. user =================>', user) where the catch error is turning back:
Environment
Please provide the following:
- Version of this library used:
jsonwebtoken: ^8.5.1
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 18.2k
- Forks
- 1.3k
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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