VerifySoftwareToken - Amazon Cognito User Pools
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VerifySoftwareToken

Use this API to register a user's entered time-based one-time password (TOTP) code and mark the user's software token MFA status as "verified" if successful. The request takes an access token or a session string, but not both.

Note

Amazon Cognito doesn't evaluate Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in requests for this API operation. For this operation, you can't use IAM credentials to authorize requests, and you can't grant IAM permissions in policies. For more information about authorization models in Amazon Cognito, see Using the Amazon Cognito user pools API and user pool endpoints.

Request Syntax

{ "AccessToken": "string", "FriendlyDeviceName": "string", "Session": "string", "UserCode": "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.

AccessToken

A valid access token that Amazon Cognito issued to the user whose software token you want to verify.

Type: String

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

Required: No

FriendlyDeviceName

The friendly device name.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 131072.

Required: No

Session

The session that should be passed both ways in challenge-response calls to the service.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.

Required: No

UserCode

The one- time password computed using the secret code returned by AssociateSoftwareToken.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 6.

Pattern: [0-9]+

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "Session": "string", "Status": "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.

Session

The session that should be passed both ways in challenge-response calls to the service.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.

Status

The status of the verify software token.

Type: String

Valid Values: SUCCESS | ERROR

Errors

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

CodeMismatchException

This exception is thrown if the provided code doesn't match what the server was expecting.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EnableSoftwareTokenMFAException

This exception is thrown when there is a code mismatch and the service fails to configure the software token TOTP multi-factor authentication (MFA).

HTTP Status Code: 400

ForbiddenException

This exception is thrown when Amazon WAF doesn't allow your request based on a web ACL that's associated with your user pool.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalErrorException

This exception is thrown when Amazon Cognito encounters an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidParameterException

This exception is thrown when the Amazon Cognito service encounters an invalid parameter.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidUserPoolConfigurationException

This exception is thrown when the user pool configuration is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotAuthorizedException

This exception is thrown when a user isn't authorized.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotAuthorizedException

This exception is thrown when a user isn't authorized.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PasswordResetRequiredException

This exception is thrown when a password reset is required.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

This exception is thrown when the Amazon Cognito service can't find the requested resource.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SoftwareTokenMFANotFoundException

This exception is thrown when the software token time-based one-time password (TOTP) multi-factor authentication (MFA) isn't activated for the user pool.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyRequestsException

This exception is thrown when the user has made too many requests for a given operation.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UserNotConfirmedException

This exception is thrown when a user isn't confirmed successfully.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UserNotFoundException

This exception is thrown when a user isn't found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

The following example request activates TOTP MFA for the user who the access key was issued to.

Sample Request

POST HTTP/1.1 Host: cognito-idp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com X-Amz-Date: 20230613T200059Z Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br X-Amz-Target: AWSCognitoIdentityProviderService.VerifySoftwareToken User-Agent: <UserAgentString> Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<Credential>, SignedHeaders=<Headers>, Signature=<Signature> Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes> { "AccessToken": "eyJraACCESSTOKENEXAMPLE...", "FriendlyDeviceName": "MyAuthenticatorApp", "UserCode": "123456" }

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> x-amzn-requestid: a1b2c3d4-e5f6-a1b2-c3d4-EXAMPLE11111 Connection: keep-alive { "Status": "SUCCESS" }

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: