Calling jwt.decode in node-jsonwebtoken skips signature verification completely
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:01.221Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:01.221Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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jwt.decode(token) base64url-decodes the payload and returns it. It checks no signature, no expiry, and no claims. It exists for inspection, logging and routing decisions that do not grant anything.
It returns the same object shape as jwt.verify, which is why it periodically ends up on an authorization path, usually added by someone who needed a claim before the verification key was available. Grep for decode( anywhere near reads of sub, role, scope or tenant identifiers. If you genuinely need the kid before verifying, parse only the header segment, use it to select a key, and then verify before trusting any claim in the payload.
Source: https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken
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