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Motivation

The simulator serves the login side of Auth0 (/authorize, /oauth/token, /userinfo, …) but none of the Management API. Every /api/v2/* request returns 404, even though /oauth/token already issues client_credentials tokens for it.

That means you can't test apps that manage users on the server offline. Common examples are admin screens that create users, invite flows (create a user, then email a password-change ticket as the invite link), and code that updates a user's metadata. People end up writing their own mock endpoints, which aren't connected to the simulator's users. A user created in such a mock can't log in, and a metadata update never reaches a token.

Depends on #379 — this branch is built on top of it, so its commit shows up here until that one is merged.

Approach

The new endpoints read and write the simulator's own user store, the same one the login flow uses:

  • POST /api/v2/users creates a user who can then log in. It returns 409 if the email is already taken.
  • GET /api/v2/users/:id and GET /api/v2/users-by-email?email=
  • PATCH /api/v2/users/:id updates profile fields and merges user_metadata / app_metadata the way Auth0 does. Top-level keys are merged, nested objects are replaced, and null removes a key. The next token picks up the change.
  • DELETE /api/v2/users/:id removes the user, who can no longer log in.
  • POST /api/v2/tickets/password-change returns a ticket URL. It accepts ttl_sec, result_url and mark_email_as_verified. The URL opens a simple page at /lo/reset where the user sets a new password. After that the page redirects to result_url if one was given. A ticket works once and expires.

Requests need a Bearer token signed by the simulator, for example one from a client_credentials grant. Errors use Auth0's { statusCode, error, message, errorCode } shape.

Users also get an email_verified field so that mark_email_as_verified has something to set. Tokens and /userinfo now report that field instead of a hard-coded true.

Tests cover each endpoint, logging in after create and delete, a metadata change showing up in the next token through a rule, and the full ticket flow (redeem once, result_url redirect, expiry). The README lists the endpoints.

Alternate Designs

  • Keep the API users separate from the login users. Simpler, but then the API is just a mock: created users can't log in and updates don't reach tokens. Using the real store is the main point of this PR.
  • Accept any Bearer token. Easier for tests, but checking the signature costs almost nothing, since the simulator issues the tokens itself.

Possible Drawbacks or Risks

  • Seeded users default to email_verified: true, so existing tokens don't change. Users created through the API default to false, as in Auth0.
  • A user created without a password gets the same default password as seeded users (12345). Real Auth0 would reject the request, but I chose to be lenient here.
  • The new routes come after extendRouter, so anyone who already mocks /api/v2/* that way keeps their own handlers.
  • This covers only a small part of the Management API: users and password-change tickets.

TODOs and Open Questions

  • Are there other Management API endpoints you'd like included (roles, GET /api/v2/users search)? I kept this to what invite and user-management flows need.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added simulated Auth0 Management API support for creating, viewing, updating, searching, and deleting users, plus creating and redeeming password-change tickets.
    • Added support for seeding user and application metadata. Rules can access this metadata and selectively add values to tokens.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Tokens and /userinfo now reflect each user’s email_verified status; seeded users default to verified, while newly created users default to unverified.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded the Quick Start and endpoint documentation with examples and details about metadata, user management, and password resets.

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 now stores user verification and metadata fields, exposes user and password-ticket Management API routes, and supports password resets through /lo/reset. Rules receive stored metadata, while tokens include metadata only when rules add it as a claim.

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Auth0 simulator

Layer / File(s) Summary
User state and metadata 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/fixtures/rules-metadata/*, packages/auth0/test/rules.test.ts, packages/auth0/README.md, .changes/auth0-user-metadata.md
Users include email_verified, user_metadata, and app_metadata. Rules receive both metadata fields. Profile claims exclude raw metadata, and /userinfo uses the stored verification value. Tests and documentation cover metadata seeding and rule-created token claims.
Management API routes and ticket creation
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/test/management-api.test.ts, packages/auth0/README.md, .changes/auth0-management-api.md
The simulator registers bearer-token-protected routes for user creation, retrieval, updates, deletion, email lookup, and password-change ticket creation. User updates merge metadata fields and remove keys set to null. The store adds password-ticket records.
Password reset form and submission
packages/auth0/src/views/password-reset.ts, packages/auth0/src/handlers/management-api-handlers.ts, packages/auth0/test/management-api.test.ts
/lo/reset displays a form for valid tickets and handles password submissions. Successful submissions update the password, remove the ticket, optionally verify the email, and show a success page or redirect.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant ManagementAPI as Management API
  participant Tickets as passwordTickets table
  participant ResetPage as /lo/reset
  participant Users as User store
  Browser->>ManagementAPI: Request password-change ticket
  ManagementAPI->>Tickets: Store ticket
  ManagementAPI-->>Browser: Return ticket URL
  Browser->>ResetPage: GET ticket URL
  ResetPage->>Tickets: Validate ticket and expiry
  Browser->>ResetPage: POST ticket and new password
  ResetPage->>Users: Update password and optional email verification
  ResetPage->>Tickets: Remove redeemed ticket
  ResetPage-->>Browser: Show success page or redirect
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ca63c

Changing a user’s email to one already in use can make account lookup ambiguous. The issue is bounded, but PATCH email validation should be fixed before relying on that workflow.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟠 High · up to ca63c

The new management endpoints can read, create, change, and delete users in the simulator. Their authorization boundary accepts any token signed with the simulator’s key, and that key is included in the package source. This materially increases the consequences of exposing a simulator instance, although the documented default use is local.

Retained concerns

  • High · security · inferred: Any acceptable JWT signed with the simulator key grants the new routes store-wide management authority, without management audience or permission checks. The pre-existing signing key is present in package source, making this a materially new consequence if an instance is reachable by untrusted clients.
  • Medium · security · observed: Creating a managed user without a password assigns the schema’s known default password, making that new account password-accessible to anyone who knows its email and the default value.
  • Medium · security · inferred: User creation rejects duplicate emails, but PATCH can assign an existing or invalid email without schema validation. Subsequent email-based login, lookup, and ticket targeting can therefore resolve an ambiguous identity.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A request passing the management middleware can operate on users throughout that simulator store; the inspected handlers show no per-user or per-tenant authorization boundary. Exposure beyond a local instance is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If untrusted clients can reach an instance, a locally signed token—including one made with the package’s pre-existing source-available key—passes the new signature-only gate and can reach user mutation and ticket creation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The router places authentication before its management routes. The reset path instead checks ticket presence, expiry, and user existence; successful sequential redemption removes the ticket. These controls do not establish transactional or concurrent single-use behavior.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A lost response after ticket redemption can leave the password changed and ticket consumed while a retry receives an expired-link response. The dispatch delegates to store machinery whose rollback behavior under partial failure is not established here.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define the intended management-token authority contract and enforce audience, token purpose, and permissions at the route boundary; if instances may be exposed to untrusted clients, do not use a source-available shared signing key as their management credential.
  • proposed — Preserve email uniqueness on PATCH, choose an explicit password policy for newly created users, and establish atomic one-use ticket consumption across concurrent redemption and failure recovery.
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- Line 141: In the PATCH user update flow, validate string email values before
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duplicates found by findByEmail with a 409 response, excluding the user being
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Comment thread packages/auth0/src/handlers/management-api-handlers.ts
- 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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