Add support for acquiring a token with a pre-signed JWT

msal/application.py

@@ -151,6 +151,14 @@ def __init__(
             "The provided signature value did not match the expected signature value",
             you may try use only the leaf cert (in PEM/str format) instead.
 
+            *Added in version 1.13.0*:
+            It can also be a completly pre-signed assertion that you've assembled yourself.
+            Simply pass a container containing only the key "client_assertion", like this:
+
+                {
+                    "client_assertion": "...a JWT with claims aud, exp, iss, jti, nbf, and sub..."
+                }
+
         :param dict client_claims:
             *Added in version 0.5.0*:
             It is a dictionary of extra claims that would be signed by
@@ -256,28 +264,32 @@ def _build_client(self, client_credential, authority):
             default_headers['x-app-ver'] = self.app_version
         default_body = {"client_info": 1}
         if isinstance(client_credential, dict):
-            assert ("private_key" in client_credential
-                    and "thumbprint" in client_credential)
-            headers = {}
-            if 'public_certificate' in client_credential:
-                headers["x5c"] = extract_certs(client_credential['public_certificate'])
-            if not client_credential.get("passphrase"):
-                unencrypted_private_key = client_credential['private_key']
-            else:
-                from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import serialization
-                from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend
-                unencrypted_private_key = serialization.load_pem_private_key(
-                    _str2bytes(client_credential["private_key"]),
-                    _str2bytes(client_credential["passphrase"]),
-                    backend=default_backend(),  # It was a required param until 2020
-                    )
-            assertion = JwtAssertionCreator(
-                unencrypted_private_key, algorithm="RS256",
-                sha1_thumbprint=client_credential.get("thumbprint"), headers=headers)
-            client_assertion = assertion.create_regenerative_assertion(
-                audience=authority.token_endpoint, issuer=self.client_id,
-                additional_claims=self.client_claims or {})
+            assert (("private_key" in client_credential
+                    and "thumbprint" in client_credential) or
+                    "client_assertion" in client_credential)
             client_assertion_type = Client.CLIENT_ASSERTION_TYPE_JWT
+            if 'client_assertion' in client_credential:
+                client_assertion = client_credential['client_assertion']
+            else:
+                headers = {}
+                if 'public_certificate' in client_credential:
+                    headers["x5c"] = extract_certs(client_credential['public_certificate'])
+                if not client_credential.get("passphrase"):
+                    unencrypted_private_key = client_credential['private_key']
+                else:
+                    from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import serialization
+                    from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend
+                    unencrypted_private_key = serialization.load_pem_private_key(
+                        _str2bytes(client_credential["private_key"]),
+                        _str2bytes(client_credential["passphrase"]),
+                        backend=default_backend(),  # It was a required param until 2020
+                        )
+                assertion = JwtAssertionCreator(
+                    unencrypted_private_key, algorithm="RS256",
+                    sha1_thumbprint=client_credential.get("thumbprint"), headers=headers)
+                client_assertion = assertion.create_regenerative_assertion(
+                    audience=authority.token_endpoint, issuer=self.client_id,
+                    additional_claims=self.client_claims or {})
         else:
             default_body['client_secret'] = client_credential
         server_configuration = {

sample/vault_jwt_sample.py

@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+"""
+The configuration file would look like this (sans those // comments):
+{
+    "tenant": "your_tenant_name",
+        // Your target tenant, DNS name
+    "client_id": "your_client_id",
+        // Target app ID in Azure AD
+    "scope": ["https://graph.microsoft.com/.default"],
+        // Specific to Client Credentials Grant i.e. acquire_token_for_client(),
+        // you don't specify, in the code, the individual scopes you want to access.
+        // Instead, you statically declared them when registering your application.
+        // Therefore the only possible scope is "resource/.default"
+        // (here "https://graph.microsoft.com/.default")
+        // which means "the static permissions defined in the application".
+    "vault_tenant": "your_vault_tenant_name",
+        // Your Vault tenant may be different to your target tenant
+        // If that's not the case, you can set this to the same
+        // as "tenant"
+    "vault_clientid": "your_vault_client_id",
+        // Client ID of your vault app in your vault tenant
+    "vault_clientsecret": "your_vault_client_secret",
+        // Secret for your vault app
+    "vault_url": "your_vault_url",
+        // URL of your vault app
+    "cert": "your_cert_name",
+        // Name of your certificate in your vault
+    "cert_thumb": "your_cert_thumbprint",
+        // Thumbprint of your certificate
+    "endpoint": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users"
+        // For this resource to work, you need to visit Application Permissions
+        // page in portal, declare scope User.Read.All, which needs admin consent
+        // https://github.com/Azure-Samples/ms-identity-python-daemon/blob/master/2-Call-MsGraph-WithCertificate/README.md
+}
+You can then run this sample with a JSON configuration file:
+    python sample.py parameters.json
+"""
+
+import base64
+import json
+import logging
+import requests
+import sys
+import time
+import uuid
+import msal
+
+# Optional logging
+# logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)  # Enable DEBUG log for entire script
+# logging.getLogger("msal").setLevel(logging.INFO)  # Optionally disable MSAL DEBUG logs
+
+from azure.keyvault import KeyVaultClient, KeyVaultAuthentication
+from azure.common.credentials import ServicePrincipalCredentials
+from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend
+from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import hashes
+
+config = json.load(open(sys.argv[1]))
+
+def auth_vault_callback(server, resource, scope):
+    credentials = ServicePrincipalCredentials(
+        client_id=config['vault_clientid'],
+        secret=config['vault_clientsecret'],
+        tenant=config['vault_tenant'],
+        resource='https://vault.azure.net'
+    )
+    token = credentials.token
+    return token['token_type'], token['access_token']
+
+
+def make_vault_jwt():
+
+    header = {
+              'alg': 'RS256',
+              'typ': 'JWT',
+              'x5t': base64.b64encode(
+                        config['cert_thumb'].decode('hex'))
+             }
+    header_b64 = base64.b64encode(json.dumps(header).encode('utf-8'))
+
+    body = {
+            'aud': "https://login.microsoftonline.com/%s/oauth2/token" %
+                   config['tenant'],
+            'exp': (int(time.time()) + 600),
+            'iss': config['client_id'],
+            'jti': str(uuid.uuid4()),
+            'nbf': int(time.time()),
+            'sub': config['client_id']
+            }
+    body_b64 = base64.b64encode(json.dumps(body).encode('utf-8'))
+
+    full_b64 = b'.'.join([header_b64, body_b64])
+
+    client = KeyVaultClient(KeyVaultAuthentication(auth_vault_callback))
+    chosen_hash = hashes.SHA256()
+    hasher = hashes.Hash(chosen_hash, default_backend())
+    hasher.update(full_b64)
+    digest = hasher.finalize()
+    signed_digest = client.sign(config['vault_url'],
+                                config['cert'], '', 'RS256',
+                                digest).result
+
+    full_token = b'.'.join([full_b64, base64.b64encode(signed_digest)])
+
+    return full_token
+
+
+authority = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/%s" % config['tenant']
+
+app = msal.ConfidentialClientApplication(
+        config['client_id'], authority=authority, client_credential={"client_assertion": make_vault_jwt()}
+      )
+
+# The pattern to acquire a token looks like this.
+result = None
+
+# Firstly, looks up a token from cache
+# Since we are looking for token for the current app, NOT for an end user,
+# notice we give account parameter as None.
+result = app.acquire_token_silent(config["scope"], account=None)
+
+if not result:
+    logging.info("No suitable token exists in cache. Let's get a new one from AAD.")
+    result = app.acquire_token_for_client(scopes=config["scope"])
+
+if "access_token" in result:
+    # Calling graph using the access token
+    graph_data = requests.get(  # Use token to call downstream service
+        config["endpoint"],
+        headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + result['access_token']},).json()
+    print("Graph API call result: %s" % json.dumps(graph_data, indent=2))
+else:
+    print(result.get("error"))
+    print(result.get("error_description"))
+    print(result.get("correlation_id"))  # You may need this when reporting a bug
+

tests/test_client.py

@@ -85,7 +85,15 @@ class TestClient(Oauth2TestCase):
     @classmethod
     def setUpClass(cls):
         http_client = MinimalHttpClient()
-        if "client_certificate" in CONFIG:
+        if "client_assertion" in CONFIG:
+            cls.client = Client(
+                CONFIG["openid_configuration"],
+                CONFIG['client_id'],
+                http_client=http_client,
+                client_assertion=CONFIG["client_assertion"],
+                client_assertion_type=Client.CLIENT_ASSERTION_TYPE_JWT,
+                )
+        elif "client_certificate" in CONFIG:
             private_key_path = CONFIG["client_certificate"]["private_key_path"]
             with open(os.path.join(THIS_FOLDER, private_key_path)) as f:
                 private_key = f.read()  # Expecting PEM format

tests/test_e2e.py

@@ -277,6 +277,16 @@ def test_subject_name_issuer_authentication(self):
         self.assertIn('access_token', result)
         self.assertCacheWorksForApp(result, scope)
 
+    def test_pre_signed_jwt_authentication(self):
+        self.skipUnlessWithConfig(["client_id", "client_assertion"])
+        self.app = msal.ConfidentialClientApplication(
+            self.config['client_id'], authority=self.config["authority"],
+            client_credential={"client_assertion": self.config["client_assertion"]},
+            http_client=MinimalHttpClient())
+        scope = self.config.get("scope", [])
+        result = self.app.acquire_token_for_client(scope)
+        self.assertIn('access_token', result)
+        self.assertCacheWorksForApp(result, scope)
 
 @unittest.skipUnless(os.path.exists(CONFIG), "Optional %s not found" % CONFIG)
 class DeviceFlowTestCase(E2eTestCase):  # A leaf class so it will be run only once