JWT authentication based on the Parameter in Multi-tenant Asp.net Core web site

Question

I am using JWT based authentication in my .net core 2.1 web site. Currently this works fine. Now, I have to make one API multi-tenant and each tenant will have it's own secret key. The tenant Id will be passed as parameter to the API.

        [Authorize]
        [HttpGet("tenant/{id}")]
        public async Task<IActionResult> GetInfo(string id)
        {
        }

Each tenant will sign the JWT and will add to Authorization header. I am not able to think of a way to change IssuerSigningKey based on the parameter. I tried following:

1. Validating the JWT inside the API by making it [AllowAonymus]. This works but I have end up writing all the JWT validating code.

2. Implementing ISecurityTokenValidator

I can implement ISecurityTokenValidator to validate the token and using this in startup configuration something like this:

services.AddAuthentication(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme).AddJwtBearer(options =>
            {
                options.SecurityTokenValidators.Clear();
                options.SecurityTokenValidators.Add(new JWTSecurityTokenValidator());
            });

And implemented my own class to validate the token.

public class JWTSecurityTokenValidator : ISecurityTokenValidator
{
    public ClaimsPrincipal ValidateToken(string securityToken, TokenValidationParameters validationParameters, out SecurityToken validatedToken)
    {
            // Implement the logic
    }
}

But again I end up doing heavy lifting. Also, I am not able to access the parameter "tenantId" in the ValidateToken.

3.Using IssuerSigningKeyResolver: I can implement a delegate:

IEnumerable<SecurityKey> IssuerSigningKeyResolver(string token, SecurityToken securityToken, string kid, TokenValidationParameters validationParameters)

Again I don't's have access to the "tenantId" parameter to choose the appropriate key.

Is there elegant solution to choosing IssuerSigningKey based on the parameter so that I don't need to write my own logic to validate JWT? Or only option is to go with first option?

Liliuokalani

Answer 1

You can use DI to pass IHttpContextAccessor instance into your JWTSecurityTokenValidator and get value of IHttpContextAccessor.HttpContext property.

From .Net Core 2.1 , you can register using extension :

services.AddHttpContextAccessor();

Then in your custom JWTSecurityTokenValidator , modify to inject the IHttpContextAccessor :

private readonly IHttpContextAccessor _httpContextAccessor;

public JWTSecurityTokenValidator(IHttpContextAccessor httpContextAccessor) {
    _httpContextAccessor = httpContextAccessor;
}

Modify the registration in Startup.cs :

options.SecurityTokenValidators.Clear();

options.SecurityTokenValidators.Add(new JWTSecurityTokenValidator(services.BuildServiceProvider().GetService<IHttpContextAccessor>()));

So that in ValidateToken method ,you can read the parameter from _httpContextAccessor.HttpContext , according to how you pass the parameter , read it from query string or path :

public ClaimsPrincipal ValidateToken(string securityToken, TokenValidationParameters validationParameters, out SecurityToken validatedToken)
{
        var xx = _httpContextAccessor.HttpContext.Request;
        ........
}

Birdbath