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Fixes #42062

Custom OAuth "Use Modern OAuth Flow" broke email + account merging.

Root cause

verifyFunction.ts set email: profile?.emails?.[0]?.value as the last
key in the object literal — Custom OAuth returns a flat profile.email
string, not the profile.emails array standard providers use, so this
always evaluated to undefined and silently wiped out the valid email.

That cascaded into two symptoms:

  • New users got created with no email.
  • The email-based merge hook (findOneByEmailAddress(undefined)) matched
    nothing, fell through to user creation, collided on username, and threw
    an unhandled rejection — hanging the browser indefinitely.

Fix

File Change
resolveOAuthProfile.ts (new) Shared email/name fallback resolver (emails[0] → flat email_json.email), applied last so it can't be overwritten
verifyFunction.ts Uses the new resolver; wrapped in try/catch so errors reach done(error) instead of hanging; dropped a redundant ...profile spread that leaked _raw
configureOAuthServices.ts Delegates to verifyFunction() instead of duplicating the same ~30-line flow (had the identical bug)
customOAuth.ts Preserves existing displayName instead of overwriting it with undefined
verifyFunction.spec.ts (new) 6 tests: flat shape, Passport array shape, _json fallback, name-conflict protection, error propagation, user-not-found

Changeset added (@rocket.chat/meteor, patch).

Verified

  • Traced the original repro (existing user, Key Field: email, modern flow
    on) end-to-end against the fix — merges into existing _id, no collision.
  • All 6 unit tests pass; new files type-check cleanly.
  • No other code in server/lib/oauth/ or server/lib/auth-providers/
    depends on the removed identity.emails field.

The object literal in verifyFunction.ts set `email` as the last key using
`profile?.emails?.[0]?.value`, which silently overwrote a valid
`profile.email` string (as set by CustomOAuthStrategy) with `undefined`,
since Custom OAuth doesn't follow the standard Passport `profile.emails`
array convention used by Google/GitHub/Facebook.

This caused two effects on Custom OAuth "Use Modern OAuth Flow":
- New users were created with no email address.
- The email-based merge hook in customOAuth.ts silently failed
  (`findOneByEmailAddress(undefined)`), falling through to user creation,
  which collided on username and threw an unhandled promise rejection —
  hanging the browser on an infinite loading screen.

Fixes:
- verifyFunction.ts / configureOAuthServices.ts: resolve `email` and
  `name` with a fallback chain (profile.emails -> profile.email ->
  _json.email), applied last in the object literal so nothing can
  silently overwrite the resolved value. Wrapped in try/catch so errors
  always reach done(err) instead of hanging.
- addPassportCustomOAuth.ts: added .catch() on verifyFunction() as
  defense in depth.
- customOAuth.ts: normalizeIdentity() now also populates
  identity.emails and identity.displayName, aligning Custom OAuth's
  identity shape with the standard Passport Profile convention.

Fixes RocketChat#42062
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apps/meteor/server/lib/oauth/resolveOAuthProfile.ts (1)

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Walkthrough

Custom OAuth now resolves profile email and name fields through a shared helper, passes normalized data to external-service account updates, preserves resolved display names, and adds regression coverage for modern-flow account merging.

Changes

Custom OAuth hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve and apply OAuth profile fields
apps/meteor/server/lib/oauth/resolveOAuthProfile.ts, apps/meteor/server/lib/oauth/verifyFunction.ts, apps/meteor/server/lib/oauth/configureOAuthServices.ts
The OAuth callback delegates profile normalization to resolveOAuthProfile. The resolver supports standard, flat, and _json.email fields. The normalized data is passed to updateOrCreateUserFromExternalService.
Normalize custom OAuth identity fields
apps/meteor/server/lib/auth-providers/custom-oauth/customOAuth.ts
normalizeIdentity sets displayName from the resolved name and no longer creates an emails array from email.
Cover OAuth profile resolution
apps/meteor/server/lib/oauth/verifyFunction.spec.ts, apps/meteor/jest.config.ts, .changeset/custom-oauth-modern-flow-email-merge.md
Tests cover field precedence, fallback values, error handling, and missing users. Jest now discovers the OAuth specs. A patch changeset records the fix.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 64eb9

Custom OAuth modern-flow sign-ins now preserve resolved profile email and name data so matching accounts can be merged correctly. The updated callback path retains its existing failure handling and is covered by focused regression tests.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OAuthStrategy
  participant verifyFunction
  participant resolveOAuthProfile
  participant Accounts
  OAuthStrategy->>verifyFunction: pass OAuth profile
  verifyFunction->>resolveOAuthProfile: resolve email and name
  resolveOAuthProfile-->>verifyFunction: return normalized profile
  verifyFunction->>Accounts: update or create external-service user
  Accounts-->>verifyFunction: return user or error
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In `@apps/meteor/server/lib/auth-providers/custom-oauth/customOAuth.ts`:
- Line 228: Update the display-name handling in getName and the identity mapping
around identity.displayName so an existing profile displayName is preserved when
identity.name is undefined; only overwrite displayName when a valid
identity.name exists, while retaining the current name mapping for profiles that
provide one.

In `@apps/meteor/server/lib/oauth/verifyFunction.ts`:
- Line 23: Remove the ...profile spread from the payload passed to
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- preserve existing displayName if identity.name is falsy in customOAuth.ts
- remove redundant ...profile spread from verifyFunction.ts to avoid re-introducing _raw
- remove redundant .catch() on verifyFunction in addPassportCustomOAuth.ts
- add changeset for @rocket.chat/meteor patch
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…resolution

- Remove malformed identity.emails assignment from CustomOAuthStrategy in customOAuth.ts
  to prevent invalid email document creation in Meteor Accounts
- Extract resolveOAuthProfile helper for shared OAuth profile normalization and claim resolution
- Update verifyFunction.ts and configureOAuthServices.ts to use the shared helper
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<file name="apps/meteor/server/lib/oauth/resolveOAuthProfile.ts">

<violation number="1" location="apps/meteor/server/lib/oauth/resolveOAuthProfile.ts:17">
P1: When a provider's raw `_json` contains canonical fields that differ from Passport's normalized profile, this spread overwrites the normalized identity. Preserve canonical profile fields by spreading `_json` before `restProfile`, so raw claims cannot change service-account matching.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="apps/meteor/server/lib/oauth/resolveOAuthProfile.ts:18">
P3: The PR claims to exclude 'sensitive raw profile data from user records,' but `resolveOAuthProfile` still spreads the full `_json` provider userinfo into the persisted OAuth service record—only the `_json`/`_raw` wrapper keys are dropped, not their contents. If this is intentional (preserving provider fields), drop or reword the release-note claim; otherwise filter `_json` to a known-safe allowlist.</violation>
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P1: When a provider's raw _json contains canonical fields that differ from Passport's normalized profile, this spread overwrites the normalized identity. Preserve canonical profile fields by spreading _json before restProfile, so raw claims cannot change service-account matching.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At apps/meteor/server/lib/oauth/resolveOAuthProfile.ts, line 17:

<comment>When a provider's raw `_json` contains canonical fields that differ from Passport's normalized profile, this spread overwrites the normalized identity. Preserve canonical profile fields by spreading `_json` before `restProfile`, so raw claims cannot change service-account matching.</comment>

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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+	const name = profile.displayName || profileWithRaw.name;
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+	return {
+		...restProfile,
+		..._json,
+		...(name ? { name } : {}),
</file context>
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...restProfile,
..._json,
..._json,
...restProfile,


return {
...restProfile,
..._json,

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P3: The PR claims to exclude 'sensitive raw profile data from user records,' but resolveOAuthProfile still spreads the full _json provider userinfo into the persisted OAuth service record—only the _json/_raw wrapper keys are dropped, not their contents. If this is intentional (preserving provider fields), drop or reword the release-note claim; otherwise filter _json to a known-safe allowlist.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At apps/meteor/server/lib/oauth/resolveOAuthProfile.ts, line 18:

<comment>The PR claims to exclude 'sensitive raw profile data from user records,' but `resolveOAuthProfile` still spreads the full `_json` provider userinfo into the persisted OAuth service record—only the `_json`/`_raw` wrapper keys are dropped, not their contents. If this is intentional (preserving provider fields), drop or reword the release-note claim; otherwise filter `_json` to a known-safe allowlist.</comment>

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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
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+	return {
+		...restProfile,
+		..._json,
+		...(name ? { name } : {}),
+		...(email ? { email } : {}),
</file context>

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