Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

IsAuthorizedWithToken

Makes an authorization decision about a service request described in the parameters. The principal in this request comes from an external identity source in the form of an identity token formatted as a JSON web token (JWT). The information in the parameters can also define additional context that Verified Permissions can include in the evaluation. The request is evaluated against all matching policies in the specified policy store. The result of the decision is either Allow or Deny, along with a list of the policies that resulted in the decision.

At this time, Verified Permissions accepts tokens from only Amazon Cognito.

Verified Permissions validates each token that is specified in a request by checking its expiration date and its signature.

Important

If you delete a Amazon Cognito user pool or user, tokens from that deleted pool or that deleted user continue to be usable until they expire.

Request Syntax


{
   "accessToken": "string",
   "action": { 
      "actionId": "string",
      "actionType": "string"
   },
   "context": { ... },
   "entities": { ... },
   "identityToken": "string",
   "policyStoreId": "string",
   "resource": { 
      "entityId": "string",
      "entityType": "string"
   }
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Note

In the following list, the required parameters are described first.

policyStoreId

Specifies the ID of the policy store. Policies in this policy store will be used to make an authorization decision for the input.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9-]*

Required: Yes

accessToken

Specifies an access token for the principal to be authorized. This token is provided to you by the identity provider (IdP) associated with the specified identity source. You must specify either an accessToken, an identityToken, or both.

Must be an access token. Verified Permissions returns an error if the token_use claim in the submitted token isn't access.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 131072.

Pattern: [A-Za-z0-9-_=]+.[A-Za-z0-9-_=]+.[A-Za-z0-9-_=]+

Required: No

action

Specifies the requested action to be authorized. Is the specified principal authorized to perform this action on the specified resource.

Type: ActionIdentifier object

Required: No

context

Specifies additional context that can be used to make more granular authorization decisions.

Type: ContextDefinition object

Note: This object is a Union. Only one member of this object can be specified or returned.

Required: No

entities

Specifies the list of resources and their associated attributes that Verified Permissions can examine when evaluating the policies.

Important

You can't include principals in this parameter, only resource and action entities. This parameter can't include any entities of a type that matches the user or group entity types that you defined in your identity source.

The IsAuthorizedWithToken operation takes principal attributes from only the identityToken or accessToken passed to the operation.
For action entities, you can include only their Identifier and EntityType.

Type: EntitiesDefinition object

Note: This object is a Union. Only one member of this object can be specified or returned.

Required: No

identityToken

Specifies an identity token for the principal to be authorized. This token is provided to you by the identity provider (IdP) associated with the specified identity source. You must specify either an accessToken, an identityToken, or both.

Must be an ID token. Verified Permissions returns an error if the token_use claim in the submitted token isn't id.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 131072.

Pattern: [A-Za-z0-9-_=]+.[A-Za-z0-9-_=]+.[A-Za-z0-9-_=]+

Required: No

resource

Specifies the resource for which the authorization decision is made. For example, is the principal allowed to perform the action on the resource?

Type: EntityIdentifier object

Required: No

Response Syntax


{
   "decision": "string",
   "determiningPolicies": [ 
      { 
         "policyId": "string"
      }
   ],
   "errors": [ 
      { 
         "errorDescription": "string"
      }
   ],
   "principal": { 
      "entityId": "string",
      "entityType": "string"
   }
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

decision

An authorization decision that indicates if the authorization request should be allowed or denied.

Type: String

Valid Values: ALLOW | DENY

determiningPolicies

The list of determining policies used to make the authorization decision. For example, if there are multiple matching policies, where at least one is a forbid policy, then because forbid always overrides permit the forbid policies are the determining policies. If all matching policies are permit policies, then those policies are the determining policies. When no policies match and the response is the default DENY, there are no determining policies.

Type: Array of DeterminingPolicyItem objects

errors

Errors that occurred while making an authorization decision. For example, a policy references an entity or entity attribute that does not exist in the slice.

Type: Array of EvaluationErrorItem objects

principal

The identifier of the principal in the ID or access token.

Type: EntityIdentifier object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

AccessDeniedException

You don't have sufficient access to perform this action.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServerException

The request failed because of an internal error. Try your request again later

HTTP Status Code: 500

ResourceNotFoundException

The request failed because it references a resource that doesn't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ThrottlingException

The request failed because it exceeded a throttling quota.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ValidationException

The request failed because one or more input parameters don't satisfy their constraint requirements. The output is provided as a list of fields and a reason for each field that isn't valid.

The possible reasons include the following:

UnrecognizedEntityType

The policy includes an entity type that isn't found in the schema.
UnrecognizedActionId

The policy includes an action id that isn't found in the schema.
InvalidActionApplication

The policy includes an action that, according to the schema, doesn't support the specified principal and resource.
UnexpectedType

The policy included an operand that isn't a valid type for the specified operation.
IncompatibleTypes

The types of elements included in a set, or the types of expressions used in an if...then...else clause aren't compatible in this context.
MissingAttribute

The policy attempts to access a record or entity attribute that isn't specified in the schema. Test for the existence of the attribute first before attempting to access its value. For more information, see the has (presence of attribute test) operator in the Cedar Policy Language Guide.
UnsafeOptionalAttributeAccess

The policy attempts to access a record or entity attribute that is optional and isn't guaranteed to be present. Test for the existence of the attribute first before attempting to access its value. For more information, see the has (presence of attribute test) operator in the Cedar Policy Language Guide.
ImpossiblePolicy

Cedar has determined that a policy condition always evaluates to false. If the policy is always false, it can never apply to any query, and so it can never affect an authorization decision.
WrongNumberArguments

The policy references an extension type with the wrong number of arguments.
FunctionArgumentValidationError

Cedar couldn't parse the argument passed to an extension type. For example, a string that is to be parsed as an IPv4 address can contain only digits and the period character.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

The following example requests an authorization decision for a user who was authenticated by Amazon Cognito. The request uses the identity token provided by Amazon Cognito instead of the access token. In this example, the specified information store is configured to return principals as entities of type CognitoUser. The policy store contains a policy with the following statement.


permit(
    principal == CognitoUser::"us-east-1_1a2b3c4d5|a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j0kalbmc",
    action,
    resource == PhotoFlash::Photo::"VacationPhoto94.jpg"
);

Sample Request


POST HTTP/1.1
Host: verifiedpermissions.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
X-Amz-Date: 20230613T200059Z
Accept-Encoding: identity
X-Amz-Target: VerifiedPermissions.IsAuthorizedWithToken
User-Agent: <UserAgentString>
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<Credential>, SignedHeaders=<Headers>, Signature=<Signature>
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>

{
    "action": {
        "actionId": "View", 
        "actionType": "Action"
    },
    "resource": {
        "entityId": "vacationPhoto94.jpg", 
        "entityType": "PhotoFlash::Photo"
    }
    "identityToken": "AbCdE12345...long.string...54321EdCbA",
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:00:59 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
vary: origin
vary: access-control-request-method
vary: access-control-request-headers
x-amzn-requestid: a1b2c3d4-e5f6-a1b2-c3d4-EXAMPLE11111
Connection: keep-alive

{
    "decision":"Allow",
    "determiningPolicies":[
        {
        "determiningPolicyId":"SPEXAMPLEabcdefg111111"
        }
    ],
    "errors":[]
}