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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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The sec tag cannot be displayed in thymeleaf?
I'm learning the spring security module.
Here is my security configuration class:
@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class SecurityConfiguration {
@Bean
public SecurityFilterChain ...
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Is Spring framework 6.x compatible with Spring Security 7.x?
Is Spring framework 6.x compatible with Spring Security 7.x? I need to upgrade a servlet-based web application to the latest version of Spring Security, but due to some dependency limitations I can't ...
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Working around spaghetti lambdas and builder in Spring Security v6
I am working to adapt Spring Security v6 in my application and one of the GitHub projects I am using as a model has the following filterChain implementation in its @EnableWebSecurity Configuration ...
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MDC and SecurityContext propagation failing when using Virtual Threads (Executor)
I am migrating a Spring Boot 3.x application to use Java Virtual Threads. I have replaced my standard async executor with a virtual thread executor:
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public Executor taskExecutor() {
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Spring Boot + Auth0: Health endpoint returns 401 on Azure App Service but works locally even though path is excluded from SecurityFilterChain
I'm implementing authentication with Auth0 in a Spring Boot application using the OAuth2 resource server.
Everything works correctly locally, but after deploying to Azure App Service, I cannot access ...
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Is it safe to reuse UserDetails from SecurityContext instead of querying the database again?
I am implementing JWT authentication with Spring Security. In this filter I validate the JWT, extract the email, and then load the user using UserDetailsService.
@Component
@RequiredArgsConstructor
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