---
title: "Update the authenticated user's password"
method: POST
path: "/auth/password"
tags: ["Auth"]
---

# Update the authenticated user's password

`POST /auth/password`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.mnemom.ai/v1`
- URL: `https://api.mnemom.ai/v1/auth/password`
- Auth: API key in cookie `mnemom_session`

Authenticated password update. Used by both the `/reset-password` recovery flow (after the recovery email callback issues a session) and voluntary password changes from account settings. Cookie session auth required (`mnemom_session`); bearer tokens are not accepted on this route. After a successful update, every other session for the same user is revoked with audit reason `password_reset`.

## Request body

- object
  - `password` string, required: New password. Must be at least 12 characters. The upstream identity provider applies additional weak-password and breach-list checks; failures surface as 400 with a `password_rejected` error code.

## Response `200`

Password updated. Other sessions for the same user are revoked best-effort.

- object
  - `ok` boolean

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Authentication required
- `403`: Cross-origin write refused (`cross_origin_rejected`). A state-changing request that carries the browser session cookie must come from a first-party origin (`Origin`, or failing that `Referer`) and must not send a form-style body (text/plain, urlencoded, multipart) the operation does not declare. Bearer and API-key callers are never subject to this check.
- `422`: Request was well-formed but semantically invalid (e.g., business-rule validation failure, malformed YAML inside a JSON payload).
- `429`: Rate-limit exceeded. The global per-IP limiter (100 requests/minute, applied to every `/v1/*` route) rejected this request. Back off until the window resets — `Retry-After` carries the cooldown in seconds and `X-RateLimit-Reset` the absolute reset time.
- `500`: Server error — request was well-formed but the server failed to fulfill it. Typically a downstream dependency (DB / RPC / external API) returned an unexpected error.

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