WebAuthn servers must compare the clientDataJSON origin, type and challenge against stored state

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:01.781Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:01.781Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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The client data carries four fields the relying party has to check itself, because the browser checks none of them for you. type must be webauthn.create for registration and webauthn.get for assertion, so an assertion cannot be replayed into a registration flow. origin must be in your allowlist, compared including scheme and port. challenge must equal a single-use value of at least 16 random bytes that you generated and stored server-side. crossOrigin must be false unless you deliberately support framed ceremonies.

Compare the challenge as raw bytes rather than re-encoding, since base64url padding differences produce spurious mismatches. Separately, verify that the rpIdHash in authenticatorData equals the SHA-256 of your RP ID string.

Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-3/

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