Spring Security : Multiple HTTP Config not working

Question

I am trying to use Spring Security and I have a use case where I want different login pages and different set of URLs to be secured.

Here is my configuration:

@Configuration
@Order(1)
public static class ProviderSecurity extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter{
    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http
            .authorizeRequests()
                .antMatchers("/", "/home").permitAll()
                .antMatchers("/admin/login").permitAll()
                .antMatchers("/admin/**").access("hasRole('BASE_USER')")
                .and()
            .formLogin()
                .loginPage("/admin/login").permitAll()
                .defaultSuccessUrl("/admin/home")
                .failureUrl("/admin/login?error=true").permitAll()
                .usernameParameter("username")
                .passwordParameter("password")
                .and()
            .csrf()                    
                .and()
            .exceptionHandling().accessDeniedPage("/Access_Denied");            
    }
}


@Configuration
@Order(2)
public static class ConsumerSecurity extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http
            .authorizeRequests()
                .antMatchers("/consumer/login").permitAll()
                .antMatchers("/consumer/**").access("hasRole('BASE_USER')")
                .anyRequest().authenticated()
                .and()
            .formLogin()
                .loginPage("/consumer/login").permitAll()
                .defaultSuccessUrl("/consumer/home")
                .failureUrl("/consumer/login?error=true").permitAll()
                .usernameParameter("username")
                .passwordParameter("password")
                .and().csrf()                
                .and()
            .exceptionHandling().accessDeniedPage("/Access_Denied");
    }
}

These classes are inner classes of another class MultipleHttpSecurityConfig that has annotation @EnableWebSecurity.

The security for admin/** is working fine, but none of the consumer/** pages are secured, no redirection is happening for login page. I've searched for other answers but none worked.

score 32 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Look at the Spring Security Reference:

@EnableWebSecurity
public class MultiHttpSecurityConfig {
  @Autowired
  public void configureGlobal(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) { 1
      auth
          .inMemoryAuthentication()
              .withUser("user").password("password").roles("USER").and()
              .withUser("admin").password("password").roles("USER", "ADMIN");
  }

  @Configuration
  @Order(1)                                                        2
  public static class ApiWebSecurityConfigurationAdapter extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
      protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
          http
              .antMatcher("/api/**")                               3
              .authorizeRequests()
                  .anyRequest().hasRole("ADMIN")
                  .and()
              .httpBasic();
      }
  }    

  @Configuration                                                   4
  public static class FormLoginWebSecurityConfigurerAdapter extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

      @Override
      protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
          http
              .authorizeRequests()
                  .anyRequest().authenticated()
                  .and()
              .formLogin();
      }
  }
}

1 Configure Authentication as normal

2 Create an instance of WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter that contains @Order to specify which WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter should be considered first.

3 The http.antMatcher states that this HttpSecurity will only be applicable to URLs that start with /api/

4 Create another instance of WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter. If the URL does not start with /api/ this configuration will be used. This configuration is considered after ApiWebSecurityConfigurationAdapter since it has an @Order value after 1 (no @Order defaults to last).

Your second configuration is not used, because your first configuration matches /** (no antMatcher configured). And your first configuration restricts only /admin/**, all other URLs are permitted by default.

In other words, you can specify multiple `WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter`s which are considered in order by priority specified in `@Order` annotation. **First one that matches the** `.requestMatchers().antMatchers("/matcher/**")` **is used and others are discarded**. ie, `WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter`s don't stack. — maricn, May 07 '18 at 12:46

score 27 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '16 at 08:32

Your first WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter's

http
            .authorizeRequests()

matches all the URLs, limit it to only URLs start with /admin by using antMatcher:

@Configuration
@Order(1)
public static class ProviderSecurity extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter{
    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http
            .antMatcher("/admin/**")
                .authorizeRequests()
                .antMatchers("/admin/login").permitAll()
                .antMatchers("/admin/**").access("hasRole('BASE_USER')")
                .and()

                ...

Spring Security : Multiple HTTP Config not working

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