vault-plugin-secrets-oauth-client-credentials

vault-plugin-secrets-oauth-client-credentials

This is a standalone secrets engine plugin for use with Hashicorp Vault.

This plugin provides a secure wrapper around OAuth 2 authorization client credentials grant, also know as 2-legged OAuth which does not require authorization.
Client credentials grant is used by clients to obtain an access token outside of the context of a user. This is typically used by clients to access resources about themselves rather than to access a user's resources.

Usage

Download plugin's binary and register the plugin with Vault. Usually you register the plugin with the following commands.

$ vault write sys/plugins/catalog/secret/oauthapp \
    sha256=<calculated_sha256_hash> \
    command=vault-plugin-secrets-oauth-client-credentials

We will assume it is registered under the name oauthapp.

Mount the plugin at the path of your choosing:

$ vault secrets enable -path=oauth2/my-provider oauthapp
Success! Enabled the oauthapp secrets engine at: oauth2/my-provider/

Configure it with the necessary information to exchange tokens. Token URL shall point to an endpoint for obtaining tokens from your provider (it usually ends with /token).

$ vault write oauth2/my-provider/config \
    client_id=hOEvqqbHVlSNpuvY \
    client_secret=6q2xrjZOJ1R9MfUvUxJzFAk \
    token_url=https://example.com/token \
    scopes=read.user,read.org
Success! Data written to: oauth2/my-provider/config

Once the client secret has been written, it will never be exposed again.

To retrieve a token, read from the /creds/:name endpoint. The name identifier can be any arbitrary string.

$ vault read oauth2/my-provider/creds/my-user
Key             Value
---             -----
access_token    RRcJk5r2BBUKsIquXaoVJfnSUX6uTkVReSaEthrgJmd8p9xlWPD0d0ADFgW5p6Glki5UNGEBGr6hWCEu
expires         2020-10-25T13:43:56.6282713+01:00

You can override default scopes by specifying scopes parameter. This returns a new token with a new scope.

$ vault read oauth2/my-provider/creds/my-user scopes=write.user,write.org
Key             Value
---             -----
access_token    vy7f9quvazKypM4FJ4WQMLCHkUEcDb2Z3ZifSWMi94Ur40Z3xf13dOj6Cydkp7vdoNRLQD2eOMFy0r2L
expires         2020-10-25T13:44:07.1123581+01:00

The client secret is never exposed to Vault clients.

Endpoints

config

GET (read)

Retrieve the current configuration settings (except the client secret).

PUT (write)

Write new configuration settings. This endpoint completely replaces the existing configuration.

DELETE (delete)

Remove the current configuration. This does not invalidate any existing access tokens.

creds/:name

GET (read)

Retrieve a current access token for the given credential.

DELETE (delete)

Remove the credential information from storage. This removes all scopes identified by the credential's name.