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Preview build only (pkg.pr.new). Upstream: thefrontside#379 and the Management API PR.

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  • New Features
    • Added a subset of the Auth0 Management API for creating, finding, updating, and deleting users, plus creating password-change tickets.
    • Added a password-reset page where users can redeem valid tickets and set a new password.
    • User metadata is available to rules, which can use it to add claims to tokens. Tokens and /userinfo now reflect each user’s email verification status.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the Quick Start, Rules, and Endpoints guides with setup details and supported behavior.

Users seeded via initialState can carry user_metadata/app_metadata
(default {}), and rules receive both on the user argument as Auth0 Rules
do, so claims can be derived from metadata. Neither is copied into the
tokens unless a rule adds it as a claim.
Adds /api/v2/users (create/get/patch/delete), /api/v2/users-by-email and
/api/v2/tickets/password-change, backed by the simulator's own user store
so a created user can log in, a deleted one can't, and a metadata PATCH
(top-level merge, null deletes, as in Auth0) reaches the next token.
Password-change tickets honour ttl_sec, result_url and
mark_email_as_verified, and are redeemed on a minimal /lo/reset page.
Requests need a bearer token signed by the simulator.

Users gain email_verified (default true for seeded users, so existing
tokens are unchanged); API-created users default to false, like Auth0.
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The Auth0 simulator adds user metadata support for rules and token claims, a subset of Management API user routes, and password-change ticket creation and redemption. It also reports stored email-verification values in tokens and /userinfo.

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Auth0 simulator

Layer / File(s) Summary
User metadata and token claims
packages/auth0/src/store/entities.ts, packages/auth0/src/rules/types.ts, packages/auth0/src/handlers/oauth-handlers.ts, packages/auth0/src/handlers/auth0-handlers.ts, packages/auth0/test/entities.test.ts, packages/auth0/test/rules.test.ts, packages/auth0/test/fixtures/rules-metadata/*, packages/auth0/README.md, .changes/auth0-user-metadata.md
User records support user_metadata and app_metadata. Rules receive these values, while token metadata claims are added only when a rule sets them. Token and /userinfo responses use the stored email_verified value.
Management API user operations
packages/auth0/src/handlers/management-api-handlers.ts, packages/auth0/src/handlers/index.ts, packages/auth0/test/management-api.test.ts, packages/auth0/README.md, .changes/auth0-management-api.md
Bearer-token-protected routes support user creation, lookup, updates, deletion, and email search. User creation validates email and handles duplicate email or ID conflicts; updates merge metadata at the top level and remove keys set to null.
Password-change ticket redemption
packages/auth0/src/store/entities.ts, packages/auth0/src/store/index.ts, packages/auth0/src/handlers/management-api-handlers.ts, packages/auth0/src/handlers/index.ts, packages/auth0/src/views/password-reset.ts, packages/auth0/test/management-api.test.ts, packages/auth0/README.md, .changes/auth0-management-api.md
The store tracks password-change tickets. Reset routes display a form for valid tickets and accept password submissions; successful redemption updates the password, can mark the email verified, removes the ticket, and redirects when a result URL is supplied.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ManagementAuthentication
  participant createManagementApiHandlers
  participant simulationStore
  participant ResetPage
  Client->>ManagementAuthentication: Submit authenticated ticket request
  ManagementAuthentication->>createManagementApiHandlers: Forward authorized request
  createManagementApiHandlers->>simulationStore: Store password-change ticket
  createManagementApiHandlers-->>Client: Return ticket details
  Client->>ResetPage: Request reset page with ticket
  ResetPage-->>Client: Return password form
  Client->>ResetPage: Submit ticket and new password
  ResetPage->>simulationStore: Update password and remove ticket
  ResetPage-->>Client: Redirect or return success page
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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to ca63c

A signed-in user can access account-management operations intended for management clients, including updates and deletion. PATCH can also leave email-based management operations targeting the wrong account or store an unusable email. Fix these before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟠 High · up to ca63c

A token issued for an ordinary simulator user can pass the new Management API check and reach operations affecting other accounts, including password changes. The impact is bounded to an exposed simulator instance; deployment exposure is not established.

Retained concerns

  • High · security · observed: The new Management API accepts simulator-signed user tokens without management-specific authorization. A holder can act on other users, alter app metadata and verification status, or obtain a password-change ticket for an account.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A caller with any accepted simulator-signed JWT can target accounts throughout the reachable simulator store, rather than only the token subject. The record does not establish exposure beyond a simulator instance.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The retained authorization-bypass finding is introduced with the new routes: a valid user JWT passes signature-only management authentication, after which handlers can change another user's password or app metadata, delete an account, or return a password-reset ticket.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Missing or invalid Bearer tokens receive 401, but a verified token is passed onward without checking management privileges or binding subsequent operations to its subject.
  • observed — The signing key predates this PR, but the newly registered privileged routes now rely on that same key as their sole token trust root.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Ticket IDs are randomly generated, tickets expire, and successful redemption removes the ticket in the same dispatched update as the password change. Those controls limit redemption of a ticket but cannot compensate for unauthorized ticket issuance.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define a distinct management-token contract and enforce its audience, issuer, client identity and required permissions before user or ticket operations; do not treat possession of any simulator-signed user token as management authority.
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In `@packages/auth0/src/handlers/management-api-handlers.ts`:
- Line 89: Update the jwtVerify call in the Management API handler to require
the Management API audience derived from serviceURL(req), and reject verified
tokens unless their gty claim is client-credentials. Preserve the existing
signature and time-claim validation.
- Line 141: In the PATCH handler, check a supplied email with findByEmail before
storing its normalized value; return 409 if it belongs to a different user,
while allowing the current user to retain their email.
- Line 141: Validate the merged user in the PATCH handler with auth0UserSchema
before calling schema.users.add; return a 400 validation error if parsing fails
and use the parsed data for the update. Keep this separate from duplicate-email
detection.

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  • packages/auth0/src/handlers/index.ts
  • packages/auth0/src/handlers/management-api-handlers.ts
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  • packages/auth0/src/store/index.ts
  • packages/auth0/src/views/password-reset.ts
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  • packages/auth0/test/fixtures/rules-metadata/metadata-claims.js
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- PATCH rejects an invalid email (400) or one another user has (409)
- users created without a password get a random one instead of the
  known default, so only a password-change ticket can open the account
- tokens must be for the https://<host>/api/v2/ audience, so login
  tokens are refused (Auth0 parity; the signing key is public)
- tokens must come from a client_credentials grant; a user's token for
  the /api/v2/ audience no longer gets store-wide access
- PATCH validates the whole merged user with auth0UserSchema (400) before
  the duplicate-email check (409)
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