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Deepak Sharma
Deepak Sharma

Reputation: 1901

Using Microsoft Graph token to secure ASP.NET Core Web API with Jwt Bearer tokens

We have an ASP.NET Core Web API that I want to secure with Microsoft Graph Access token. The graph token is valid and I can do graph call it works fine.

However, If I try to access the ASP.NET Core Web API which is configured with JWT Bearer authentication, it gives the following error.

Bearer error="invalid_token", error_description="The signature key was not found

Am I missing some configurations to configure or this is a problem with graph token? Here is how the authentication is configured.

        services.AddAuthentication(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)
               .AddJwtBearer(options =>
               {
                   options.TokenValidationParameters = new TokenValidationParameters()
                   {
                       ValidateIssuer = false, // For multi tenant
                       ValidateIssuerSigningKey = false,
                       ValidateAudience = false // This is for testing
                   };
               });

The same configurations works fine with Azure AD Access Token.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1924

Answers (1)

Nan Yu
Nan Yu

Reputation: 27588

We have an ASP.NET Core Web API that I want to secure with Microsoft Graph Access toke

No , i suggest register your web api as a resource which protected by Azure AD .

Microsoft Graph API token is used to access the Microsoft Graph , Microsoft Graph's server side will validate the claims/signature after receiving the JWT token . In addition , i remember Microsoft Graph API access tokens are signed different from the JWT tokens which issued from AAD . So let Microsoft Graph API server side to validate the token and the token should not be used to protected other API .

Your client app could uses the OpenID Connect middleware and the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL.NET) to obtain a JWT bearer token for the signed-in user using the OAuth 2.0 protocol. The bearer token is passed to the web API, which validates the token and authorizes the user using the JWT bearer authentication middleware :

Calling a web API in an ASP.NET Core web application using Azure AD

Upvotes: 2

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