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## Control Objective

The concept of a self-contained token is mentioned in the original RFC 6749 OAuth 2.0 from 2012. It effectively refers to a token which contains data or claims which a receiving service will rely upon to make security decisions. This is to be differentiated from a token which is just an identifier which a receiving service will use to lookup data locally. The most common example of a self-contained token is a JSON Web Token (JWT) but a SAML assertion could also fall into this category.
The concept of a self-contained token is mentioned in the original RFC 6749 OAuth 2.0 from 2012. It effectively refers to a token which contains data or claims which a receiving service will rely upon to make security decisions. This is to be differentiated from a token which is just an identifier which a receiving service will use to lookup data locally. The most common example of a self-contained token is a JSON Web Token (JWT) but a SAML assertion could also fall into this category.

The use of self-contained tokens has become very widespread, even outside of OIDC/OAuth. At the same time, the security of this mechanism relies on the ability to validate the integrity of the token and to ensure that the token is valid for a particular context. There are many pitfalls with this process and this chapter will provide specific details of the mechanisms that applications should have in place to prevent them.

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