For the latest stable version, please use Spring Security 6.4.1!spring-doc.cn

Authentication Migrations

The following steps relate to how to finish migrating authentication support.spring-doc.cn

Propagate AuthenticationServiceExceptions

AuthenticationFilter propagates AuthenticationServiceExceptions to the AuthenticationEntryPoint. Because AuthenticationServiceExceptions represent a server-side error instead of a client-side error, in 6.0, this changes to propagate them to the container.spring-doc.cn

So, if you opted into this behavior by setting rethrowAuthenticationServiceException to true, you can now remove it like so:spring-doc.cn

AuthenticationFilter authenticationFilter = new AuthenticationFilter(...);
AuthenticationEntryPointFailureHandler handler = new AuthenticationEntryPointFailureHandler(...);
handler.setRethrowAuthenticationServiceException(true);
authenticationFilter.setAuthenticationFailureHandler(handler);
val authenticationFilter: AuthenticationFilter = AuthenticationFilter(...)
val handler: AuthenticationEntryPointFailureHandler = AuthenticationEntryPointFailureHandler(...)
handler.setRethrowAuthenticationServiceException(true)
authenticationFilter.setAuthenticationFailureHandler(handler)
<bean id="authenticationFilter" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AuthenticationFilter">
    <!-- ... -->
    <property ref="authenticationFailureHandler"/>
</bean>

<bean id="authenticationFailureHandler" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AuthenticationEntryPointFailureHandler">
    <property name="rethrowAuthenticationServiceException" value="true"/>
</bean>

changes to:spring-doc.cn

AuthenticationFilter authenticationFilter = new AuthenticationFilter(...);
AuthenticationEntryPointFailureHandler handler = new AuthenticationEntryPointFailureHandler(...);
authenticationFilter.setAuthenticationFailureHandler(handler);
val authenticationFilter: AuthenticationFilter = AuthenticationFilter(...)
val handler: AuthenticationEntryPointFailureHandler = AuthenticationEntryPointFailureHandler(...)
authenticationFilter.setAuthenticationFailureHandler(handler)
<bean id="authenticationFilter" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AuthenticationFilter">
    <!-- ... -->
    <property ref="authenticationFailureHandler"/>
</bean>

<bean id="authenticationFailureHandler" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AuthenticationEntryPointFailureHandler">
    <!-- ... -->
</bean>

Use SHA-256 in Remember Me

In 6.0, the TokenBasedRememberMeServices uses SHA-256 to encode and match the token. To complete the migration, any default values can be removed.spring-doc.cn

For example, if you opted in to the 6.0 default for encodingAlgorithm and matchingAlgorithm like so:spring-doc.cn

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class SecurityConfig {
    @Bean
    SecurityFilterChain securityFilterChain(HttpSecurity http, RememberMeServices rememberMeServices) throws Exception {
        http
                // ...
                .rememberMe((remember) -> remember
                    .rememberMeServices(rememberMeServices)
                );
        return http.build();
    }
    @Bean
    RememberMeServices rememberMeServices(UserDetailsService userDetailsService) {
        RememberMeTokenAlgorithm encodingAlgorithm = RememberMeTokenAlgorithm.SHA256;
        TokenBasedRememberMeServices rememberMe = new TokenBasedRememberMeServices(myKey, userDetailsService, encodingAlgorithm);
        rememberMe.setMatchingAlgorithm(RememberMeTokenAlgorithm.SHA256);
        return rememberMe;
    }
}
<http>
  <remember-me services-ref="rememberMeServices"/>
</http>
<bean id="rememberMeServices" class=
"org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.TokenBasedRememberMeServices">
    <property name="userDetailsService" ref="myUserDetailsService"/>
    <property name="key" value="springRocks"/>
    <property name="matchingAlgorithm" value="SHA256"/>
    <property name="encodingAlgorithm" value="SHA256"/>
</bean>

then the defaults can be removed:spring-doc.cn

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class SecurityConfig {
    @Bean
    SecurityFilterChain securityFilterChain(HttpSecurity http, RememberMeServices rememberMeServices) throws Exception {
        http
                // ...
                .rememberMe((remember) -> remember
                    .rememberMeServices(rememberMeServices)
                );
        return http.build();
    }
    @Bean
    RememberMeServices rememberMeServices(UserDetailsService userDetailsService) {
        return new TokenBasedRememberMeServices(myKey, userDetailsService);
    }
}
<http>
  <remember-me services-ref="rememberMeServices"/>
</http>
<bean id="rememberMeServices" class=
"org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.TokenBasedRememberMeServices">
    <property name="userDetailsService" ref="myUserDetailsService"/>
    <property name="key" value="springRocks"/>
</bean>

Default authorities for oauth2Login()

In Spring Security 5, the default GrantedAuthority given to a user that authenticates with an OAuth2 or OpenID Connect 1.0 provider (via oauth2Login()) is ROLE_USER.spring-doc.cn

In Spring Security 6, the default authority given to a user authenticating with an OAuth2 provider is OAUTH2_USER. The default authority given to a user authenticating with an OpenID Connect 1.0 provider is OIDC_USER. If you configured the GrantedAuthoritiesMapper only for the purpose of updating to 6.0, you can remove it completely.spring-doc.cn