OAuth 2.0 best practices
Source-linked guidance on OAuth 2.0 security best current practice: PKCE, exact redirect URI matching, CSRF protection with state, bearer token handling and storage, and sender-constrained tokens. Scoped to OAuth 2.0 security per RFC 9700; not a general OAuth tutorial.
Documents
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Bearer token handling and storageRefresh tokens allow short-lived, narrowly scoped access tokens, reducing the impact of access token leakage, but they are an attractive target because they carry the full scope… | |
Exact redirect URI matchingAuthorization servers MUST compare redirection URIs with exact string matching rather than pattern matching: the two URIs must be equal under the Simple String Comparison of RFC… | |
PKCE for the authorization code flowClients must prevent authorization code injection and misuse of authorization codes. Public clients MUST use PKCE (RFC 7636); for confidential clients PKCE is RECOMMENDED,… | |
Sender-constrained tokens with mTLS and DPoPA sender-constrained access token is usable only by a specific sender, which must prove knowledge of a secret before a resource server accepts it. The authorization server binds… | |
The state parameter and CSRF protectionThe long-established CSRF countermeasure is that clients pass a random value, a CSRF token, in the state parameter, linking the request to the redirection URI and the user agent… |
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