Add JWT logout with server-side token revocation - #98
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Session JWTs carried no unique identifier, so there was nothing to key a revocation list on: the only way to invalidate a single token was to rotate JWT_SECRET, which logs out every user at once. Add a jti claim to every issued token. generateJWT is the sole issuing path -- both the JSON API login and the admin UI's form login (OneBusAway#92) call it -- so no token can escape without one. The identifier is 128 bits from crypto/rand rather than a counter: a guessable jti would let an attacker pre-emptively revoke other users' tokens. parseSessionToken now also requires an exp claim. generateJWT always sets one, and the revocation list that follows records each token's expiry, so a token without exp is not one this server issued. No behavior change for clients yet -- this is the claim the blocklist needs.
The blocklist the jti claim is keyed on. jti is the primary key, so there is no separate index on it -- the PK already creates one. The user_id foreign key cascades on delete, matching user_vehicles (000008). Inserts are ON CONFLICT (jti) DO NOTHING so a repeat logout cannot error. TokenRevoker and TokenChecker are kept as two minimal interfaces so the logout handler depends only on the write and the auth middleware only on the read. expires_at is recorded for a periodic cleanup job that does not exist yet; the column is inert in this change and the comment on RevokeToken says so. The index on it exists for that job rather than for any query here. Migration number: main is at 000010, PRs OneBusAway#93 and OneBusAway#94 both claim 000011, and OneBusAway#97 claims 000012, so 000013 is the first free number. The gap is deliberate -- those versions are spoken for, and golang-migrate tolerates gaps (000007 is already missing).
parseSessionToken stays pure -- it is signature and claims validation with no
I/O, and threading a store through it would force a database into every caller
including tests. Revocation is a separate checkRevoked step that both token
paths invoke: requireAuth (the Authorization header and its vp_session cookie
fallback) and adminClaimsFromCookie (the admin UI's pages).
The comment on parseSessionToken warns that the two paths must not diverge,
but a comment cannot fail CI, so TestAdminCookiePath_RejectsRevokedToken and
TestRequireAuthCookiePath_RejectsRevokedToken pin it instead.
The check fails closed. If the store cannot answer, the request is rejected
rather than allowed through -- the opposite of the rate limiter's
fail-open-at-capacity rule, and deliberately so: a limiter failing open costs
some unthrottled requests, an auth check failing open costs an accepted
logged-out token.
A revoked token returns the existing 401 {"error": "invalid token"}, identical
to a malformed one, so the client learns the token is unusable without
learning it was specifically revoked. Every rejection is logged.
Tokens issued before this change have no jti and cannot be revoked. They are
still accepted, so deploying does not sign everyone out, and each acceptance
logs a warning. Tokens live 24h and every new token carries a jti, so that
warning should stop appearing within a day of deploy; a TODO marks where the
shim gets removed.
Authenticated but not admin-gated: every user logs themselves out, and can only revoke their own token, read from the context claims requireAuth already set. The sub claim is a string rather than a number (JSON number precision), so it is parsed back with strconv rather than asserted as a float. Returns 204 No Content. PR OneBusAway#58 returned 200 with a message body; logout is a void operation with nothing useful to say, per the review suggestion there. POST /admin/logout previously only cleared the cookie, leaving the JWT live for anyone who had copied its value -- the same gap this change exists to close, on the admin surface. It now revokes the token first. That is best-effort by design: the route is deliberately unauthenticated so an expired session can still sign out, and a failed revocation still clears the cookie and redirects rather than stranding the user on an error page. Because both surfaces carry the same JWT, logging out through the API also ends an admin browser session, and vice versa.
Adds POST /api/v1/auth/logout to the endpoint table and the Milestone 2 deliverables, plus a section covering its status codes, the fail-closed behavior, the shared cookie/API session, and the pre-jti compatibility window. Updates the deactivation-window note in both README.md and docs/development.md: a session can now be ended on demand, but deactivating a user still does not auto-revoke their existing tokens. That needs a per-user cutoff rather than the per-token blocklist added here, and is called out as a follow-up so the note does not overstate what landed. Status codes verified against the handlers rather than assumed.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds persistent JWT revocation. Issued tokens receive unique ChangesJWT revocation storage
JWT issuance and API logout
Admin session revocation
Documentation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Deleting a user can make their revoked JWT usable again until it expires, potentially restoring authenticated or administrative access. This should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant AuthMiddleware
participant LogoutHandler
participant Store
Client->>AuthMiddleware: POST /api/v1/auth/logout
AuthMiddleware->>Store: Check token jti
AuthMiddleware->>LogoutHandler: Pass authenticated claims
LogoutHandler->>Store: Revoke token
Store-->>LogoutHandler: Success
LogoutHandler-->>Client: 204 No Content
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In `@migrations/000013_add_revoked_tokens.up.sql`:
- Line 3: The revoked-token schema must retain revocation records when users are
deleted: update the user_id column in
migrations/000013_add_revoked_tokens.up.sql:3 to allow NULL and use ON DELETE
SET NULL, then update the deletion test in store_revocation_test.go:136-140 to
assert the token remains revoked.
In `@README.md`:
- Around line 45-47: Qualify the logout guarantees to exclude legacy JWTs
without a jti, since handleLogout returns 204 without revoking them and
authentication still accepts them. Update README.md lines 45-47 and 243-244,
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| CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS revoked_tokens ( | |||
| jti TEXT PRIMARY KEY CHECK (jti != ''), | |||
| user_id BIGINT NOT NULL REFERENCES users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE, | |||
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printf '%s\n' '--- test context ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- auth and revocation references ---'
rg -n -C 5 'requireAuth|requireAdmin|IsTokenRevoked|revoked_tokens|countRevocationRows|Delete.*User|DELETE FROM users' --glob '!vendor/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' .Repository: OneBusAway/vehicle-positions
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Broken Authentication (CWE-613): Insufficient Session Expiration
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Preserve revoked-token rows after user deletion.
ON DELETE CASCADE removes the row that IsTokenRevoked checks by jti. A retained JWT can then authenticate until exp, and requireAdmin still trusts its role claim. Make user_id nullable and use ON DELETE SET NULL. Update the deletion test to assert that the token remains revoked.
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In `@migrations/000013_add_revoked_tokens.up.sql` at line 3, The revoked-token
schema must retain revocation records when users are deleted: update the user_id
column in migrations/000013_add_revoked_tokens.up.sql:3 to allow NULL and use ON
DELETE SET NULL, then update the deletion test in
store_revocation_test.go:136-140 to assert the token remains revoked.
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| Signing out of the admin UI revokes that session's token server-side, so the | ||
| cookie is dead even if someone copied its value — the same revocation | ||
| `POST /api/v1/auth/logout` performs for API clients. |
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Qualify the logout guarantees for legacy JWTs without jti.
handleLogout returns 204 without revocation when a token has no jti, and authentication continues to accept that token. Qualify all three statements to exclude legacy tokens without jti; do not attribute the issue to persistence-error handling.
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In `@README.md` around lines 45 - 47, Qualify the logout guarantees to exclude
legacy JWTs without a jti, since handleLogout returns 204 without revoking them
and authentication still accepts them. Update README.md lines 45-47 and 243-244,
plus docs/development.md lines 92-95; do not attribute this limitation to
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Picks up @Gitkbc's work in #58, closed 2026-07-31 with "closing for now. please fix and reopen when you're ready." The
jti+ database blocklist design is theirs; what's new is the rebase, enforcement on the admin UI's cookie path, and the review items from that PR addressed.Why
Nothing can retire a single JWT early. Deactivating a compromised driver blocks new logins but leaves their existing token posting locations and starting trips for up to 24 hours; a leaked token can only be killed by rotating
JWT_SECRET, which signs out every user at once; and "log out" is a client-side gesture the server never learns about.This is the gap #92 documented as deferred work:
What changed
jtion every issued token.generateJWTmints a 128-bitcrypto/randidentifier. It is the only issuing path — the JSON API login and Admin web UI v1: authenticated dashboard, live map, CRUD, trip history #92's admin form login both call it — so no token escapes without one. A counter ormath/randwould be guessable, letting an attacker pre-emptively revoke other users' tokens.revoked_tokenstable + store.jtiprimary key (no separate index — the PK already creates one),user_idFK cascading likeuser_vehicles, plusexpires_atandrevoked_at.TokenRevokerandTokenCheckerare kept separate so logout depends only on the write and the middleware only on the read.ON CONFLICT (jti) DO NOTHINGmakes a repeat logout safe.POST /api/v1/auth/logout. Authenticated but not admin-gated; revokes only the caller's own token, read from the context claimsrequireAuthalready set. Returns 204 No Content rather than feat(auth): implement JWT logout with token revocation #58's200 {"message": ...}, per the review suggestion there.parseSessionTokenstays pure — threading a store through it would force a database into every caller including tests. Revocation is a separatecheckRevokedstep invoked byrequireAuth(theAuthorizationheader and itsvp_sessioncookie fallback) and byadminClaimsFromCookie. Two tests pin that the paths cannot silently diverge.POST /admin/logoutpreviously only cleared the cookie, leaving the JWT live for anyone who had copied its value. Best-effort by design: the route is deliberately unauthenticated so an expired session can still sign out.Behavior changes
401 {"error": "invalid token"}, indistinguishable from a malformed one.parseSessionTokennow requires anexpclaim.generateJWThas always set one andrevoked_tokens.expires_atisNOT NULL, so this makes the invariant real instead of leaving an unreachable case to guess at.jtiand cannot be revoked. They are still accepted so deploying doesn't sign everyone out, and each acceptance logs a warning that should stop appearing within 24 h of deploy. ATODOmarks where the shim gets removed.Migration numbering: 000013
mainis at000010, but #93 and #94 both claim000011and #97 claims000012. Duplicate versions merge cleanly in git and then crash the server at startup, so nothing warns you.000013is the first number free of every open-PR claim; the gap is deliberate and matches the pre-existing one at000007. Verified against a clean database: migrations apply to version 13, the down migration drops the table, and re-applying works. Happy to renumber after whichever of #93/#94/#97 lands first.Out of scope
revoked_tokensrows — per the feat(auth): implement JWT logout with token revocation #58 review, a code comment rather than an implementation; it's onRevokeToken.expires_atand its index exist so that job has something to work with. Location history retention & background pruning #93'sLocationPruneris the obvious template.tokens_invalid_beforecompared againstiat, not a per-token blocklist. This is the foundation it builds on.jtitoo, or rider tokens are unrevokable.Testing
go fmt,go vet,go buildandgo testall clean;go mod tidyreports no dependency changes. The full suite was also run withDATABASE_URLset against a clean database, confirming the DB tests actually executed rather than silentlyt.Skip-ing.Store tests: revoke→check round-trip including the stored
expires_at, unknown jti, idempotent double-revoke leaving exactly one row, FK violation with a rollback assertion that no partial row remains, the empty-jtiCHECKconstraint, and cascade on user delete.Middleware and handler tests:
jtipresent and unique per token; revoked token rejected on the header path, the cookie fallback, and the admin page path; unrevoked token allowed with claims reaching the downstream handler; store error failing closed on both paths; the no-jticompatibility path accepted and logged; logout 204 with an empty body; logout revoking the caller's own jti with the right user ID and expiry; logout store error returning 500; andTestLoginLogoutRevokeFlowwalking login → authenticated call → logout → same token 401. The existing JWT invariant tests (expired token, wrong secret,alg:none) weren't duplicated.Manual check against a live server and database: login issues a token carrying
jti→ authenticated call 200 → same token asvp_sessionopens/admin/dashboard→ logout 204 → same token 401 → the admin cookie now redirects to/admin/login→ one row inrevoked_tokenswith the matching jti and a futureexpires_at.Summary by CodeRabbit
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