2018.09

User Consent for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect Flows in Early Availability (EA)

A consent represents a user's explicit permission to allow an application to access resources protected by scopes. As part of an OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect authentication flow, you can prompt the user with a page to approve your app's access to specified resources.

Consent grants are different from tokens because a consent can outlast a token, and there can be multiple tokens with varying sets of scopes derived from a single consent. When an application comes back and needs to get a new access token, it may not need to prompt the user for consent if they have already consented to the specified scopes. Consent grants remain valid until the user manually revokes them, or until the user, application, authorization server or scope is deactivated or deleted.

To configure an authorization or authentication flow to include a user consent page:

1. Verify that you have the API Access Management feature enabled, and request that User Consent also be enabled.

2. Create an app via the Apps API with the appropriate values for tos_uri, policy_uri, and consent_method. (Details)

   Note: You can also configure an existing app in the administrator UI: Applications > [Application Name] > General > User Consent.

3. Ensure that your authentication or authorization flow is configured properly. The combination of prompt in the /authorize request, consent_method set on the app in the previous step, and consent, a property set on scopes, controls whether a user consent window is displayed during the authentication flow. Details

Sessions API Supports HTTP Header Prefer

Okta now supports the HTTP Header Prefer in the Sessions API for refreshing sessions. You can extend the session lifetime, but skip any processing work related to building the response body.

Example Request

curl -v -X POST \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: SSWS ${api_token}" \
"https://{yourOktaDomain}/api/v1/sessions/me/refresh"

Note: me can also be an ID.

Example Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Preference-Applied: return=minimal

User Schema API Allows Nullable firstName, lastName

You can set firstName or lastName to be nullable in the User Profile Base sub-schema. These properties are defined in a profile sub-schema with the resolution scope #base.

Improved Response Mode for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect Requests

For the form_post response mode, we have reduced the HTML content returned in an OpenID Connect or OAuth 2.0 request. Now the response is only a form containing the requested tokens (access token, ID token, or both) and JavaScript to post the form.

Change to /authorize Response for prompt for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect Requests

If you set prompt=none for a request on /authorize and the maximum age before sign-in is required (max_age) is exceeded, an error is returned. This ensures the safest possible result when these two settings contradict each other.

This applies to /authorize with either the Okta Org Authorization Server or a Custom Authorization Server (which requires API Access Management).

Example: Old Message Format

{
    "errorCode": "E0000001",
    "errorSummary": "Api validation failed: com.saasure.core.services.user.InvalidUserProfileException: Could not create user due to invalid profile: com.saasure.framework.validation.util.SimpleErrors: 1 errors\nError in object 'newUser': codes [password.passwordRequirementsNotMet.newUser,password.passwordRequirementsNotMet]; arguments [Password requirements: at least 8 characters, a lowercase letter, an uppercase letter, a number, no parts of your username.]; default message [Password requirements were not met. Password requirements: at least 8 characters, a lowercase letter, an uppercase letter, a number, no parts of your username.]",
    "errorLink": "E0000001",
    "errorId": "oaecNfS38enQ8KtWDvNfusWRw",
    "errorCauses": [
        {
            "errorSummary": "Password requirements were not met. Password requirements: at least 8 characters, a lowercase letter, an uppercase letter, a number, no parts of your username."
        }
    ]
}

Example: New Message Format

{
    "errorCode": "E0000001",
    "errorSummary": "Api validation failed: com.saasure.core.services.user.InvalidUserProfileException: Could not create user due to invalid profile: com.saasure.framework.validation.util.SimpleErrors: 3 errors\nField error in object 'newUser' on field 'password': rejected value [aaaa]; codes [password.minlength.newUser.password,password.minlength.password,password.minlength.java.lang.String,password.minlength]; arguments [8]; default message [Password requirements: at least 8 characters.]\nField error in object 'newUser' on field 'password': rejected value [aaaa]; codes [password.uppercase.newUser.password,password.uppercase.password,password.uppercase.java.lang.String,password.uppercase]; arguments [Password requirements: at least 0 characters, an uppercase letter.]; default message [Password requirements: at least 0 characters, an uppercase letter.]\nField error in object 'newUser' on field 'password': rejected value [aaaa]; codes [password.number.newUser.password,password.number.password,password.number.java.lang.String,password.number]; arguments [Password requirements: at least 0 characters, a number.]; default message [Password requirements: at least 0 characters, a number.]",
    "errorLink": "E0000001",
    "errorId": "oaeGZUg95w6SK2GbA44cXgtvA",
    "errorCauses": [
        {
            "errorSummary": "password: Passwords must be at least 8 characters in length",
            "reason": "LENGTH_MINIMUM",
            "location": "credentials.password.value",
            "locationType": "body",
            "domain": "user"
        },
        {
            "errorSummary": "password: Password requirements: at least 0 characters, an uppercase letter.",
            "reason": "UPPER_CASE_REQUIRED",
            "location": "credentials.password.value",
            "locationType": "body",
            "domain": "user"
        },
        {
            "errorSummary": "password: Password requirements: at least 0 characters, a number.",
            "reason": "NUMBER_REQUIRED",
            "location": "credentials.password.value",
            "locationType": "body",
            "domain": "user"
        }
    ]
}

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Improved System Log Behavior for Date Queries

1. For /logs, the request parameters since and until require the RFC 3339 Internet Date/Time Format profile of ISO 8601. This allows queries to more accurately target date ranges.

2. For /logs, the maximum page size is 1,000 messages (limit=1000). The default remains at 100.

System Log Message Changes Related to Authorization Servers

The following message changes apply to either the Okta Org Authorization Server or a Custom Authorization Server including default (which requires API Access Management), or both, as indicated in each section.

Simplified Failure Messages from /authorize Requests for /events System Log

The existing messages app.oauth2.authorize_failure, app.oauth2.as.authorize_failure and app.oauth2.as.authorize.scope_denied_failure replace these messages:

• app.oauth2.authorize.access_denied
• app.oauth2.authorize.invalid_client_id
• app.oauth2.authorize.invalid_cache_key
• app.oauth2.authorize.no_existing_session
• app.oauth2.authorize.login_failed
• app.oauth2.authorize.mismatched_user_in_cache_and_session
• app.oauth2.authorize.user_not_assigned
• app.oauth2.authorize.scope_denied
• app.oauth2.as.authorize.warn_failure
• app.oauth2.as.authorize.scope_denied

Details about the nature of the failure are included, so no information has been lost with this simplification.

These system log changes affect responses from requests that involve either the Okta Org Authorization Server or a Custom Authorization Server including default.

Simplified Failure Messages from /token Requests for /events System Log

Instead of supplying two different messages for token grant failures on /token, the existing message app.oauth2.as.authorize.token.grant_failure replaces these messages:

• app.oauth2.as.token.grant.warn_failure
• app.oauth2.as.token.grant.scope_denied_failure

This system log change affects responses from requests that involve a Custom Authorization Server including default.

Simplified Success Messages from /token Requests for /events System Log

Instead of supplying a different message for ID token and access token generation, there's just one message for each. The ID token or access token minted is included in the message as it was previously.

1. The existing message app.oauth2.authorize.implicit_success replaces:

   • app.oauth2.authorize.implicit.id_token_success
   • app.oauth2.authorize.implicit.access_token_success

2. The existing message app.oauth2.as.authorize.implicit_success replaces:

   • app.oauth2.as.authorize.implicit.id_token_success
   • app.oauth2.as.authorize.implicit.access_token_success

The _success messages weren't being written to the System Log previously, but are now.

These system log changes affect responses from requests that involve either the Okta Org Authorization Server or a Custom Authorization Server including default.

Simplified Messages from /token Requests for /logs System Log

Instead of supplying a different message for ID token and access token generation, there's just one message for each. The ID token or access token minted is included in the message as it was previously.

1. The existing message app.oauth2.authorize.implicit replaces:

   • app.oauth2.authorize.implicit.id_token
   • app.oauth2.authorize.implicit.access_token

2. The existing message app.oauth2.as.authorize.implicit replaces:

   • app.oauth2.as.authorize.implicit.id_token
   • app.oauth2.as.authorize.implicit.access_token

These system log changes affect responses from requests that involve either the Okta Org Authorization Server or a Custom Authorization Server, including default.

Bugs Fixed for 2018.09

The following bugs have been fixed and are expected in preview orgs February 28, 2018 and production orgs starting March 5, 2018.

• If a user had a status of ACTIVE and had never signed in, and an API call reset the user's password, the user's status was incorrectly changed from ACTIVE to PROVISIONED, instead of the expected RECOVERY. (OKTA-154024)
• If -admin was incorrectly included in the domain name during initialization of an OktaAuth object, no error was returned. (OKTA-156927)
• If a user was created with a password, that password wasn't considered as part of their password history. (OKTA-158966)