Refresh Token Expired with No Apparent Reason
Sep 10, 2025
Overview
Refresh Token is expired before the lifetime or without expiration at all. Also, there is no Rotation or security breach associated.
Symptoms
A user couldn't retrieve an Access Token with their Refresh Token.
Applies To
- Refresh Token
Cause
The RT is reaching a maximum in our DB (currently: 200), and after this accumulation, our server is erasing the older ones.
Troubleshooting
- Check the application RT configuration
- Check the logs related to that user
- Check the logs for failed exchanges and resource cleanups
Solution
- If the user wants to keep using older tokens, they must detect this error and retry (out of scope)
- If they accept to change their RT configuration, using Rotation and lifetime values will work better and safer