passport-azure-ad

What is passport-azure-ad?

The passport-azure-ad npm package provides authentication and authorization strategies for integrating with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) using the Passport.js framework. It supports various authentication flows including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and SAML.

What are passport-azure-ad's main functionalities?

OAuth2 Bearer Strategy

This feature allows you to authenticate users using OAuth2 Bearer tokens issued by Azure AD. The code sample demonstrates how to configure and use the BearerStrategy with Passport.js.

const passport = require('passport');
const BearerStrategy = require('passport-azure-ad').BearerStrategy;

const options = {
  identityMetadata: 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration',
  clientID: 'your-client-id',
  validateIssuer: true,
  issuer: 'https://sts.windows.net/{tenant-id}/',
  passReqToCallback: false
};

passport.use(new BearerStrategy(options, (token, done) => {
  // Token validation logic
  done(null, token);
}));

OIDC Strategy

This feature allows you to authenticate users using OpenID Connect (OIDC) with Azure AD. The code sample demonstrates how to configure and use the OIDCStrategy with Passport.js.

const passport = require('passport');
const OIDCStrategy = require('passport-azure-ad').OIDCStrategy;

const options = {
  identityMetadata: 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration',
  clientID: 'your-client-id',
  responseType: 'code id_token',
  responseMode: 'form_post',
  redirectUrl: 'http://localhost:3000/auth/openid/return',
  allowHttpForRedirectUrl: true,
  clientSecret: 'your-client-secret',
  validateIssuer: true,
  passReqToCallback: false
};

passport.use(new OIDCStrategy(options, (iss, sub, profile, accessToken, refreshToken, done) => {
  // User profile validation logic
  done(null, profile);
}));

SAML Strategy

This feature allows you to authenticate users using SAML with Azure AD. The code sample demonstrates how to configure and use the SamlStrategy with Passport.js.

const passport = require('passport');
const SamlStrategy = require('passport-azure-ad').SamlStrategy;

const options = {
  identityMetadata: 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml',
  loginCallback: 'http://localhost:3000/auth/saml/callback',
  issuer: 'your-issuer',
  audience: 'your-audience',
  cert: 'your-certificate',
  privateCert: 'your-private-certificate'
};

passport.use(new SamlStrategy(options, (profile, done) => {
  // User profile validation logic
  done(null, profile);
}));

Other packages similar to passport-azure-ad

passport-google-oauth20

The passport-google-oauth20 package provides OAuth 2.0 authentication strategy for Google. It allows you to authenticate users using their Google accounts. Compared to passport-azure-ad, it is specific to Google OAuth 2.0 and does not support other authentication flows like SAML or OIDC.

passport-saml

The passport-saml package provides SAML authentication strategy for Passport.js. It allows you to authenticate users using SAML identity providers. Compared to passport-azure-ad, it is more generic and can be used with any SAML identity provider, not just Azure AD.

passport-oauth2

The passport-oauth2 package provides a generic OAuth 2.0 authentication strategy for Passport.js. It allows you to authenticate users using any OAuth 2.0 provider. Compared to passport-azure-ad, it is more flexible but requires more configuration to work with specific providers like Azure AD.

README

Microsoft Azure Active Directory Passport.js Plug-In

=============

passport-azure-ad is a collection of Passport Strategies to help you integrate with Azure Active Directory. It includes OpenID Connect, WS-Federation, and SAML-P authentication and authorization. These providers let you integrate your Node app with Microsoft Azure AD so you can use its many features, including web single sign-on (WebSSO), Endpoint Protection with OAuth, and JWT token issuance and validation.

passport-azure-ad has been tested to work with both Microsoft Azure Active Directory and with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services.

1. Security Vulnerability in Versions < 1.4.6 and 2.0.0

passport-azure-ad has a known security vulnerability affecting versions <1.4.6 and 2.0.0. Please update to >=1.4.6 or >=2.0.1 immediately. For more details, see the security notice.

2. Versions

Current version - 3.0.4
Minimum recommended version - 1.4.6
You can find the changes for each version in the change log.

3. Contribution History

4. Installation

$ npm install passport-azure-ad

5. Usage

This library contains two strategies: OIDCStrategy and BearerStrategy.

OIDCStrategy uses OpenID Connect protocol for web application login purposes. It works in the following manner: If a user is not logged in, passport sends an authentication request to AAD (Azure Active Directory), and AAD prompts the user for his or her sign-in credentials. On successful authentication, depending on the flow you choose, web application will eventually get an id_token back either directly from the AAD authorization endpoint or by redeeming a code at the AAD token endpoint. Passport then validates the id_token and propagates the claims in id_token back to the verify callback, and let the framework finish the remaining authentication procedure. If the whole process is successful, passport adds the user information to req.user and passes it to the next middleware. In case of error, passport either sends back an unauthorized response or redirects the user to the page you specified (such as homepage or login page).

BearerStrategy uses Bearer Token protocol to protect web resource/api. It works in the following manner: User sends a request to the protected web api which contains an access_token in either the authorization header or body. Passport extracts and validates the access_token, and propagates the claims in access_token to the verify callback and let the framework finish the remaining authentication procedure. On successful authentication, passport adds the user information to req.user and passes it to the next middleware, which is usually the business logic of the web resource/api. In case of error, passport sends back an unauthorized response.

We support AAD v1, v2 and B2C tenants for both strategies. Please check out section 7 for the samples. You can manage v1 tenants and register applications at https://manage.windowsazure.com. For v2 tenants and applications, you should go to https://apps.dev.microsoft.com. For B2C tenants, go to https://manage.windowsazure.com and click 'Manage B2C settings' to register applications and policies.

5.1 OIDCStrategy

5.1.1 Configure strategy and provide callback function

5.1.1.1 Sample using the OIDCStrategy

passport.use(new OIDCStrategy({
    identityMetadata: config.creds.identityMetadata,
    clientID: config.creds.clientID,
    responseType: config.creds.responseType,
    responseMode: config.creds.responseMode,
    redirectUrl: config.creds.redirectUrl,
    allowHttpForRedirectUrl: config.creds.allowHttpForRedirectUrl,
    clientSecret: config.creds.clientSecret,
    validateIssuer: config.creds.validateIssuer,
    isB2C: config.creds.isB2C,
    issuer: config.creds.issuer,
    passReqToCallback: config.creds.passReqToCallback,
    scope: config.creds.scope,
    loggingLevel: config.creds.loggingLevel,
    nonceLifetime: config.creds.nonceLifetime,
    clockSkew: config.creds.clockSkew,
  },
  function(iss, sub, profile, accessToken, refreshToken, done) {
    if (!profile.oid) {
      return done(new Error("No oid found"), null);
    }
    // asynchronous verification, for effect...
    process.nextTick(function () {
      findByOid(profile.oid, function(err, user) {
        if (err) {
          return done(err);
        }
        if (!user) {
          // "Auto-registration"
          users.push(profile);
          return done(null, profile);
        }
        return done(null, user);
      });
    });
  }
));

5.1.1.2 Options

• identityMetadata (Required)

  The metadata endpoint provided by the Microsoft Identity Portal that provides the keys and other important information at runtime. Examples:

  • v1 tenant-specific endpoint

    https://login.microsoftonline.com/your_tenant_name.onmicrosoft.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
    https://login.microsoftonline.com/your_tenant_guid/.well-known/openid-configuration
  

  • v1 common endpoint

    https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/.well-known/openid-configuration
  

  • v2 tenant-specific endpoint

    https://login.microsoftonline.com/your_tenant_name.onmicrosoft.com/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration 
    https://login.microsoftonline.com/your_tenant_guid/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  

  • v2 common endpoint

    https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  

  For B2C, you cannot use v2 common endpoint unless you specify the tenant in passport.authenticate using tenantIdOrName option. See section 5.1.3 for more details.

• clientID (Required)

  The client ID of your application in AAD (Azure Active Directory)

• responseType (Required)

  Must be 'code', 'code id_token', 'id_token code' or 'id_token'. For login only flows you can use 'id_token'; if you want access_token, use 'code', 'code id_token' or 'id_token code'.

• responseMode (Required)

  Must be 'query' or 'form_post'. This is how you get code or id_token back. 'form_post' is recommended for all scenarios.

• redirectUrl (Required)

  Must be a https url string, unless you set allowHttpForRedirectUrl to true. This is the reply URL registered in AAD for your app. Production environment should always use https for redirectUrl.

• passReqToCallback (Required)

  Whether you want to use req as the first parameter in the verify callback. See section 5.1.1.3 for more details.

• allowHttpForRedirectUrl (Conditional)

  Required to set to true if you want to use http url for redirectUrl like http://localhost:3000.

• clientSecret (Conditional)

  When responseType is not id_token, we have to provide client credential to redeem the authorization code. This credential could be client secret or client assertion. Non-B2C tenant supports both flows, but B2C tenant only supports client secret flow.

  For B2C tenant: clientSecret is required if the responseType is not 'id_token'.

  For non-B2C tenant: If responseType is not id_token, developer must provide either clientSecret, or thumbprint and privatePEMKey. We use clientSecret if it is provided; otherwise we use thumbprint and privatePEMKey for client assertion flow.

  clientSecret is the app key of your app in AAD. For B2C, the app key sometimes contains , please replace \ with two 's in the app key, otherwise \ will be treated as the beginning of an escaping character.

• thumbprint (Conditional)

  Required if you want to use client assertion flow. thumbprint is the base64url format of the thumbprint (hash value) of the public key.

• privatePEMKey (Conditional)

  Required if you want to use client assertion flow. privatePEMKey is the private pem key string.

• isB2C (Conditional)

  Required to set to true if you are using B2C tenant.

• validateIssuer (Conditional)

  Required to set to false if you don't want to validate issuer, default value is true. We validate the iss claim in id_token against user provided issuer values and the issuer value we get from tenant-specific endpoint. If you use common endpoint for identityMetadata and you want to validate issuer, then you have to either provide issuer, or provide the tenant for each login request using tenantIdOrName option in passport.authenticate (see section 5.1.3 for more details).

• issuer (Conditional)

  This can be a string or an array of strings. See validateIssuer for the situation that requires issuer.

• scope (Optional)

  List of scope values besides openid indicating the required scope of the access token for accessing the requested resource. For example, ['email', 'profile']. If you need refresh_token for v2 endpoint, then you have to include the 'offline_access' scope.

• loggingLevel (Optional)

  Logging level. 'info', 'warn' or 'error'.

• nonceLifetime (Optional)

  The lifetime of nonce in session in seconds. The default value is 3600 seconds.

• clockSkew (Optional)

  This value is the clock skew (in seconds) allowed in token validation. It must be a positive integer. The default value is 300 seconds.

5.1.1.3 Verify callback

If you set passReqToCallback option to false, you can use one of the following signatures for the verify callback

  function(iss, sub, profile, jwtClaims, access_token, refresh_token, params, done)
  function(iss, sub, profile, access_token, refresh_token, params, done)
  function(iss, sub, profile, access_token, refresh_token, done)
  function(iss, sub, profile, done)
  function(iss, sub, done)
  function(profile, done)

If you set passReqToCallback option to true, you can use one of the following signatures for the verify callback

  function(req, iss, sub, profile, jwtClaims, access_token, refresh_token, params, done)
  function(req, iss, sub, profile, access_token, refresh_token, params, done)
  function(req, iss, sub, profile, access_token, refresh_token, done)
  function(req, iss, sub, profile, done)
  function(req, iss, sub, done)
  function(req, profile, done)

5.1.2 Use passport.authenticate to protect routes

To complete the sample, provide a route that corresponds to the path configuration parameter that is sent to the strategy:

app.get('/login', 
  passport.authenticate('azuread-openidconnect', { failureRedirect: '/' }),
  function(req, res) {
    log.info('Login was called in the Sample');
    res.redirect('/');
});

// POST /auth/openid/return
//   Use passport.authenticate() as route middleware to authenticate the
//   request.  If authentication fails, the user will be redirected back to the
//   home page.  Otherwise, the primary route function function will be called,
//   which, in this example, will redirect the user to the home page.
app.post('/auth/openid/return',
  passport.authenticate('azuread-openidconnect', { failureRedirect: '/' }),
  function(req, res) { 
    res.redirect('/');
  });

app.get('/logout', function(req, res){
  req.logout();
  res.redirect('/');
});

5.1.3 Options available for passport.authenticate

• failureRedirect: the url redirected to when the authentication fails

• session: if you don't want a persistent login session, you can use session: false. The default value is true.

• customState: if you want to use a custom state value instead of a random generated one

• resourceURL: if you need access_token for some resource. Note this option is only for v1 endpoint and code, code id_token, id_token code flow. For v2 endpoint, resource is considered as a scope, so it should be specified in the scope field when you create the strategy.

• tenantIdOrName: if you want to specify the tenant to use for this request. You can use the tenant guid or tenant name (like 'contoso.onmicrosoft.com'). Note:

  • You must use common endpoint for identityMetadata, otherwise this option will be ignored. We will fetch and use the metadata from the tenant you specify for this request.
  • This option only applies to the login request, in other words, the request which is not supposed to contain code or id_token. Passport saves the tenantIdOrName value in session before sending the authentication request. When we receive a request containing code or id_token, we retrieve the saved tenantIdOrName value from session and use that value.
  • If you are using B2C common endpoint, then tenantIdOrName must be used for every login request.

• domain_hint: if you want to specify the domain that the user should use to sign in. This option is not supported for B2C tenant.

• login_hint: if you want to prefill the username with a given value in the login page. The value should be the upn of an user, not the email (most times they are the same though).

• prompt: v1 and v2 endpoint support login, consent and admin_conset; B2C endpoint only supports login.

Example:

  passport.authenticate('azuread-openidconnect', { failureRedirect: '/', session: false, customState: 'my_state', resourceURL: 'https://graph.microsoft.com/mail.send'});
  
  passport.authenticate('azuread-openidconnect', { tenantIdOrName: 'contoso.onmicrosoft.com' });

5.2 BearerStrategy

5.2.1 Configure strategy and provide callback function

5.2.1.1 Sample using the BearerStrategy

// We pass these options in to the ODICBearerStrategy.

var options = {
  identityMetadata: config.creds.identityMetadata,
  clientID: config.creds.clientID,
  validateIssuer: config.creds.validateIssuer,
  issuer: config.creds.issuer,
  passReqToCallback: config.creds.passReqToCallback,
  isB2C: config.creds.isB2C,
  policyName: config.creds.policyName,
  allowMultiAudiencesInToken: config.creds.allowMultiAudiencesInToken,
  audience: config.creds.audience,
  loggingLevel: config.creds.loggingLevel,
  clockSkew: config.creds.clockSkew,
};

var bearerStrategy = new BearerStrategy(options,
  function(token, done) {
    log.info('verifying the user');
    log.info(token, 'was the token retreived');
    findById(token.oid, function(err, user) {
      if (err) {
        return done(err);
      }
      if (!user) {
        // "Auto-registration"
        log.info('User was added automatically as they were new. Their oid is: ', token.oid);
        users.push(token);
        owner = token.oid;
        return done(null, token);
      }
      owner = token.oid;
      return done(null, user, token);
    });
  }
);

5.2.1.2 Options

• identityMetadata (Required)

  The metadata endpoint provided by the Microsoft Identity Portal that provides the keys and other important information at runtime. Examples:

  • v1 tenant-specific endpoint

    https://login.microsoftonline.com/your_tenant_name.onmicrosoft.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
    https://login.microsoftonline.com/your_tenant_guid/.well-known/openid-configuration
  

  • v1 common endpoint

    https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/.well-known/openid-configuration
  

  • v2 tenant-specific endpoint

    https://login.microsoftonline.com/your_tenant_name.onmicrosoft.com/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration 
    https://login.microsoftonline.com/your_tenant_guid/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  

  • v2 common endpoint

    https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  

  For B2C, you can only use v2 tenant-specific endpoint.

• clientID (Required)

  The client ID of your application in AAD (Azure Active Directory)

• passReqToCallback (Required)

  Whether you want to use req as the first parameter in the verify callback. See section 5.2.1.3 for more details.

• isB2C (Conditional)

  Required to set to true if you are using B2C tenant.

• policyName (Conditional)

  Required if you are using B2C tenant. It is a string starting with 'B2C_1_' (case insensitive).

• validateIssuer (Conditional)

  Required to set to false if you don't want to validate issuer, default value is true. We validate the iss claim in id_token against user provided issuer values and the issuer value we get from tenant-specific endpoint. If you use common endpoint for identityMetadata and you want to validate issuer, then you must provide issuer.

• issuer (Conditional)

  This can be a string or an array of strings. See validateIssuer for the situation that requires issuer.

• allowMultiAudiencesInToken (Conditional)

  Required if you allow access_token whose aud claim contains multiple values.

• audience (Optional)

  Must be a string or an array of strings. We invalidate the aud claim in access_token against audience. The default value for audience is clientID.

• loggingLevel (Optional)

  Logging level. 'info', 'warn' or 'error'.

• clockSkew (Optional)

  This value is the clock skew (in seconds) allowed in token validation. It must be a positive integer. The default value is 300 seconds.

5.2.1.3 Verify callback

If you set passReqToCallback option to false, you can use the following verify callback

  function(token, done)

If you set passReqToCallback option to true, you can use the following verify callback

  function(req, token, done)

5.2.2 Use passport.authenticate to protect resources or APIs

In the following example, we are using passport to protect '/api/tasks'. User sends a GET request to '/api/tasks' with access_token in authorization header or body. Passport validates the access_token, adds the related claims from access_token to req.user, and passes the request to listTasks middleware. The listTasks middleware can then read the user information in req.user and list all the tasks related to this user. Note that we do authentication every time, so we don't need to keep this user in session, and this can be achieved by using session: false option.

  server.get('/api/tasks', passport.authenticate('oauth-bearer', { session: false }), listTasks);

5.2.3 Options available for passport.authenticate

• session: if you don't want a persistent login session, you can use session: false. The default value is true.

Example:

  passport.authenticate('oauth-bearer', { session: false });

6. Test

In the library root folder, type the following command to install the dependency packages:

    $ npm install

6.1. Run all tests except the end to end tests

Type the following command to run tests:

    $ npm test

6.2. Run all tests including the end to end tests

6.2.1. Create test applications

First you need to register one application in v1 tenant, one in v2 tenant and one in B2C tenant.

For the v2 application, you should register it at https://apps.dev.microsoft.com/ instead of Azure Portal.

For the B2C application, create four policies named 'B2C_1_signin', 'B2C_1_signup', 'B2C_1_updateprofile', 'B2C_1_resetpassword'. For each policy, select 'Local Account' as the identity provider, and select the following:

• 'B2C_1_signup':

  • Sign-up attributes: 'Display Name', 'Email Address', 'Given Name', 'Surname'

  • Application claims: 'Display Name', Email Addresses', 'Given Name', 'Identity Provider', 'Surname', 'Users Object ID'

• 'B2C_1_updateprofile':

  • Profile attributes: 'Display Name', 'Given Name', 'Surname'

  • Application claims: 'Display Name', Email Addresses', 'Given Name', 'Identity Provider', 'Surname', 'Users Object ID'

• 'B2C_1_signin':

  • Application claims: 'Display Name', Email Addresses', 'Given Name', 'Identity Provider', 'Surname', 'Users Object ID'

• 'B2C_1_signin_acr':

  • Application claims: 'Display Name', Email Addresses', 'Given Name', 'Identity Provider', 'Surname', 'Users Object ID'

  • After creating this policy, go the blade of this policy, click 'Edit' and then 'Token, session & SSO config'. Now switch the 'Claim representing policy ID' from 'tfp' to 'acr' and save the change.

• 'B2C_1_resetpassword':

  • Application claims: 'Email Addresses', 'Given Name', 'Users Object ID'

You will also need to click the 'Run now' button in the 'B2C_1_signup' blade to create an user.

6.2.2. Fill the test parameters

Open test/End_to_end_test/script.js, set is_test_parameters_completed parameter to true. For test_parameters variable, fill in the tenant id/client id/client secret of your applications, and the username/password of your application user. The 'oid' value is the object id of your application user. To find the 'oid' value, go to your tenant, click 'Users and groups', find your user and click it. The Object ID value will show up in the new blade.

For thumbprint and privatePEMKey parameters, you need to specify a certificate for your app and register the public key in Azure Active Directory. thumbprint is the base64url format of the thumbprint of the public key, and privatePEMKey is the private pem key string. For a v1 tenant, you can follow this post to generate a certificate and register the public key. For a v2 tenant, you can go to your application page in the v2 portal and click Generate New Key Pair. A certificate will be generated for you to download. The corresponding public key is automatically registered in this case.

6.2.3. Run the tests

Type the following commands to run the tests:

    $ cd test/End_to_end_test/app
    $ npm install
    $ npm install grunt -g
    $ grunt run_tests_with_e2e

Tests will run automatically and in the terminal you can see how many tests are passing/failing. More details can be found here.

7. Samples and Documentation

We provide a full suite of sample applications and documentation on GitHub to help you get started with learning the Azure Identity system. This includes tutorials for native clients such as Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, OSX, Android, and Linux. We also provide full walkthroughs for authentication flows such as OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Graph API, and other awesome features.

Azure Identity samples for this plug-in can be found in the following links:

7.1 Samples for OpenID connect strategy

• sample using v1 endpoint

• sample using v2 endpoint

• sample using B2C tenant

7.2 Samples for Bearer strategy

• sample using v1 endpoint

• sample using v2 endpoint

• sample using B2C tenant

8. Community Help and Support

We leverage Stack Overflow to work with the community on supporting Azure Active Directory and its SDKs, including this one. We highly recommend you ask your questions on Stack Overflow (we're all on there!) Also browser existing issues to see if someone has had your question before.

We recommend you use the "adal" tag so we can see it! Here is the latest Q&A on Stack Overflow for ADAL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/adal

9. Security Reporting

If you find a security issue with our libraries or services please report it to [e-mail] with as much detail as possible. Your submission may be eligible for a bounty through the Microsoft Bounty program. Please do not post security issues to GitHub Issues or any other public site. We will contact you shortly upon receiving the information. We encourage you to get notifications of when security incidents occur by visiting this page and subscribing to Security Advisory Alerts.

10. Contributing

All code is licensed under the MIT license and we triage actively on GitHub. We enthusiastically welcome contributions and feedback. You can clone the repo and start contributing now.

More details about contribution

11. Releases

Please check the releases for updates.

12. Acknowledgements

The code is based on Henri Bergius's passport-saml library and Matias Woloski's passport-wsfed-saml2 library as well as Kiyofumi Kondoh's passport-openid-google.

13. License

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved. Licensed under the MIT License;

14. Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct

We Value and Adhere to the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [e-mail] with any additional questions or comments.