NullPointerException when checking empty audience

[Viacheslav Pivovarov]

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Description

We've encountered a bug in 4.4.0 when checking if the token is issued for audience that in some cases may be empty. It used to work with 3.19.4.

Here's a snippet to reproduce it.

    @Test
    public void testEmptyAudJwtClaim() {
        String[] allowedAudience = new String[0];
        String token = JWT.create().withAudience("wide audience").sign(Algorithm.HMAC256("secret"));

        JWTVerifier verifier = JWT.require(Algorithm.HMAC256("secret")).withAudience(allowedAudience).build();
        
        verifier.verify(token);
    }

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The workaround we've found is to exclude withAudience check in case if audience is empty.

Reproduction

1. Claim token
2. Include check with empty audience
3. Verify the token to include all the audience

Additional context

No response

java-jwt version

4.4.0

Java version

11

[Jim Anderson]

Thanks @viapivov for raising and providing a reproducible test; we'll look into this and get a fix out if there is an update needed for the SDK.

[Jim Anderson]

In this case, the validation should fail when expecting a zero-length string array audience claim value; but not with a NullPointerException as it is currently. We'll get a fix in to throw an IncorrectClaimException instead.