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Modeling a hierarchical staff role system alongside a plain customer role: same User entity or split into Customer/Employee? [closed]
I'm building an e-commerce backend in Spring Boot with Spring Security. Currently I have a single User entity that implements UserDetails, used for both customers and staff (admins/managers/employees),...
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How does OAuth2AuthorizedClientManager handle concurrent token refresh in Spring Security?
I'm using Spring Boot 4.x / spring-boot-starter-oauth2-client with AuthorizedClientServiceOAuth2AuthorizedClientManager and InMemoryOAuth2AuthorizedClientService using the client-credentials grant.
My ...
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Duplicate call of FilterChainProxy with SpringSecurity, MVC and StringResponseBody
I encounter a strange behaviour in my Spring-Boot project (v4.0.6):
When I execute a Controller which returns ResponseEntity<StraingResponseBody> for writing NDJSON-Lines the FilterChainProxy of ...
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How does Spring Boot SecurityContextHolder works
I am quite struggling to understand how does even Spring
SecurityContextHolder
work internally I read too many articles but not able to understand it properly can anybody explain me how does it even ...
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Does @Order on a @Configuration class determine SecurityFilterChain precedence in Spring Security?
I'm trying to understand how Spring Security determines the order of multiple SecurityFilterChain beans.
The official documentation demonstrates applying @Order directly to the SecurityFilterChain ...
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Per-resource ACL with bitmask permissions in Spring — good approach? Scalable? What if I add roles later?
I'm building permission-based access control (ACL) in a Spring app. Resources are nested: User → Sheet → Transaction.
I want to store permissions as a bitmask instead of role rows. Is this a good ...
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"Cannot set the Security Context" console message
During obtaining the authentication token the following message appears in the Spring Boot application console.
Cannot set the Security Context
I think it's important that this message doesn't include ...
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Why does OncePerRequestFilter execute on permitAll() endpoints even when added via addFilterBefore in a SecurityFilterChain?
I have a Spring Security configuration with a SecurityFilterChain that uses authorizeHttpRequests to permit certain endpoints like /user/register without authentication. However I also have a custom ...
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Is Spring Security 5.2.9.RELEASE affected by CVE-2026-22732?
Hello Spring Security team,
I have a question regarding CVE-2026-22732.
According to the advisory, the affected versions are listed as:
5.7.0 through 5.7.21
5.8.0 through 5.8.23
6.3.0 through 6.3....
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MFA in Spring Security and Spring Authserver's authorization grant type flow
I'm wondering if people have experience setting up an Spring Authserver that has MFA enabled using Spring Security 7.x.x. The goal is for a user to start the authorization grant type flow by accessing ...
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Regarding Implementation and understanding Filters in SpringBoot
I am a recently graduated student.I made a decision to become software developer,I know its weird because of current AI trend and impact on developers.But its not about that,I started learning java ...
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Configuring Spring Boot 3 (Spring MVC & Spring Security 7) for CORS public access (with credentials)
There are lots of good examples for how to configure Spring Boot for CORS online, but it seems to be very hard to find anything with an intersection of:
Using the APIs in Spring Boot 3 rather than ...
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How to have a CorsConfigurationSource in an Autoconfiguration in Spring Boot?
I am building a company-specific Spring Boot autoconfiguration. The code looks something like this:
@AutoConfiguration
@AutoConfigureBefore(SecurityAutoConfiguration.class)
@...
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Spring Boot OAuth2ResourceServer Excluding Paths (Cloudflare Turnstile)
I have a Spring Boot REST API written in Kotlin using Keycloak with Spring Security for authentication and authorization. I want to expose one endpoint publicly but protect it with Cloudflare ...
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Use OpenFeign to call microservices within an authenticated user session
I have a setup where I use Keycloak for user authentication. I use Spring Boot and Spring Security. My backend successfully performs the authentication with Keycloak using authorization_code grant and ...
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