Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

VerifySoftwareToken

Registers the current user's time-based one-time password (TOTP) authenticator with a code generated in their authenticator app from a private key that's supplied by your user pool. Marks the user's software token MFA status as "verified" if successful. The request takes an access token or a session string, but not both.

Note

Amazon Cognito doesn't evaluate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in requests for this API operation. For this operation, you can't use IAM credentials to authorize requests, and you can't grant IAM permissions in policies. For more information about authorization models in Amazon Cognito, see Using the Amazon Cognito user pools API and user pool endpoints.

Request Syntax


{
   "AccessToken": "string",
   "FriendlyDeviceName": "string",
   "Session": "string",
   "UserCode": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AccessToken

A valid access token that Amazon Cognito issued to the currently signed-in user. Must include a scope claim for aws.cognito.signin.user.admin.

Type: String

Pattern: [A-Za-z0-9-_=.]+

Required: No

FriendlyDeviceName

A friendly name for the device that's running the TOTP authenticator.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 131072.

Required: No

Session

The session ID from an AssociateSoftwareToken request.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.

Required: No

UserCode

A TOTP that the user generated in their configured authenticator app.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 6.

Pattern: [0-9]+

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


{
   "Session": "string",
   "Status": "string"
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Session

This session ID satisfies an MFA_SETUP challenge. Supply the session ID in your challenge response.

Operations that can return an MFA_SETUP challenge include InitiateAuth, AdminInitiateAuth, RespondToAuthChallenge, and AdminRespondToAuthChallenge.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.

Status

Amazon Cognito can accept or reject the code that you provide. This response parameter indicates the success of TOTP verification. Some reasons that this operation might return an error are clock skew on the user's device and excessive retries.

Type: String

Valid Values: SUCCESS | ERROR

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

CodeMismatchException

This exception is thrown if the provided code doesn't match what the server was expecting.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EnableSoftwareTokenMFAException

This exception is thrown when there is a code mismatch and the service fails to configure the software token TOTP multi-factor authentication (MFA).

HTTP Status Code: 400

ForbiddenException

This exception is thrown when AWS WAF doesn't allow your request based on a web ACL that's associated with your user pool.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalErrorException

This exception is thrown when Amazon Cognito encounters an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidParameterException

This exception is thrown when the Amazon Cognito service encounters an invalid parameter.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidUserPoolConfigurationException

This exception is thrown when the user pool configuration is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotAuthorizedException

This exception is thrown when a user isn't authorized.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotAuthorizedException

This exception is thrown when a user isn't authorized.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PasswordResetRequiredException

This exception is thrown when a password reset is required.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

This exception is thrown when the Amazon Cognito service can't find the requested resource.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SoftwareTokenMFANotFoundException

This exception is thrown when the software token time-based one-time password (TOTP) multi-factor authentication (MFA) isn't activated for the user pool.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyRequestsException

This exception is thrown when the user has made too many requests for a given operation.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UserNotConfirmedException

This exception is thrown when a user isn't confirmed successfully.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UserNotFoundException

This exception is thrown when a user isn't found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

The following example request activates TOTP MFA for the current user.

Sample Request


POST HTTP/1.1
Host: cognito-idp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
X-Amz-Date: 20230613T200059Z
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
X-Amz-Target: AWSCognitoIdentityProviderService.VerifySoftwareToken
User-Agent: <UserAgentString>
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<Credential>, SignedHeaders=<Headers>, Signature=<Signature>
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
{
   "AccessToken": "eyJra456defEXAMPLE",
   "FriendlyDeviceName": "MyAuthenticatorApp",
   "UserCode": "123456"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:00:59 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
x-amzn-requestid: a1b2c3d4-e5f6-a1b2-c3d4-EXAMPLE11111
Connection: keep-alive
{
	"Status": "SUCCESS"
}