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JWE parsing and signing assign the unused MAC-key return value to _. Since _ is not local in those functions, each request overwrites _G._ with derived key material and can trigger OpenResty's global-write guard.

Keep the placeholder local in both paths and add a regression test that checks sign and verify preserve a sentinel in _G._.

The JWE CBC authentication-before-decryption fix is already present on current master and is not duplicated here.

Validation: LuaJIT bytecode compilation and a focused OpenResty sign/verify probe pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • JWE signing and verification no longer overwrite a shared global value when discarding intermediate results, preventing unexpected changes to that value in other Lua code.
  • Added regression coverage confirming that verification of A128CBC-HS256 encrypted tokens preserves a preexisting value.

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📝 Walkthrough

The JWE parsing and signing paths now use a local _ for discarded key-derivation return values. A test verifies an A128CBC-HS256 JWE and checks that verification leaves the worker global _ unchanged.

Changes: JWE global-state isolation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Local discarded-value bindings lib/resty/jwt.lua, t/jwe-integrity.t	parse_jwe and sign_jwe use a local _ for discarded key-derivation return values. The test verifies that successful JWE verification preserves a sentinel in the worker global _.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: vinayakhulawale, shreemaan-abhishek

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f9e6a

The change is mergeable; add RSA-OAEP sentinel coverage to protect the global-state guarantee.

Pre-merge checks: 6

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: keeping JWE key placeholder variables locally scoped to prevent global state changes.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
E2e Test Quality Review		No blocking or major issue found. The added Test::Nginx test exercises the public JWE sign and verify flow in OpenResty and asserts that _G._ retains a sentinel. Existing JWE tests cover the other e…
Security Check		No security-check failure is introduced. The PR only scopes the discard variable _ in lib/resty/jwt.lua:333 and :585; the JWE key flow and authentication logic remain unchanged. The added test c…

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Explanation

No blocking or major issue found. The added Test::Nginx test exercises the public JWE sign and verify flow in OpenResty and asserts that _G._ retains a sentinel. Existing JWE tests cover the other encryption modes and invalid-input paths. The code change is limited to local placeholders in parse_jwe and sign_jwe; the test has clear naming, direct assertions, no mocks, and no hidden test-order dependency.

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Explanation

No security-check failure is introduced. The PR only scopes the discard variable _ in lib/resty/jwt.lua:333 and :585; the JWE key flow and authentication logic remain unchanged. The added test confirms sign and verify preserve _G._ (t/jwe-integrity.t:324-338). 1. Sensitive data exposure: No issues found. 2. Unencrypted database secrets: No issues found. 3. Authorization or permission bypass: No issues found. 4. Cross-resource access: No issues found. 5. TLS or cryptographic configuration: No issues found. 6. Resource isolation: No issues found. 7. Secret reference resolution: No issues found.

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🧹 Nitpick comments: 1

t/jwe-integrity.t: 1

330-342: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add an RSA-OAEP case that checks _G._ is unchanged after verify.

The new sentinel test in t/jwe-integrity.t:330-342 covers only the DIR / A128CBC-HS256 path. The RSA-OAEP branch of parse_jwe in lib/resty/jwt.lua:333-357 also assigns its unused return value to the local placeholder _. If that local declaration is removed, the RSA branch writes _G._ again. No test in t/ checks the global on the RSA path.

Add an RSA-OAEP sign-and-verify case modeled on the DIR test. Set the sentinel with rawset(_G, "_", sentinel), verify the RSA-OAEP token, and assert rawget(_G, "_") == sentinel. The verify call exercises the changed parse_jwe branch. The sign call only produces the token.

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Review comment at @t/jwe-integrity.t around lines 330 - 342:
Add an RSA-OAEP sign-and-verify case alongside the existing sentinel test in
`t/jwe-integrity.t`. Set `_G._` to a sentinel before verification, verify the
RSA-OAEP token, and assert that `rawget(_G, "_")` still refers to the sentinel.

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Review comments at @t/jwe-integrity.t:
- Around line 330-342: Add an RSA-OAEP sign-and-verify case alongside the
existing sentinel test in `t/jwe-integrity.t`. Set `_G._` to a sentinel before
verification, verify the RSA-OAEP token, and assert that `rawget(_G, "_")` still
refers to the sentinel.

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