Spring Boot Security CORS

Question

I have a problem with CORS filter on spring security URL's. It doesn't set Access-Control-Allow-Origin and other exposed header on URL's belonging to spring sec (login/logout) or filtered by Spring Security.

Here are the configurations.

CORS:

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class MyWebMvcConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
********some irrelevant configs************
    @Override
    public void addCorsMappings(CorsRegistry registry) {
        registry.addMapping("/*").allowedOrigins("*").allowedMethods("GET", "POST", "OPTIONS", "PUT")
                .allowedHeaders("Content-Type", "X-Requested-With", "accept", "Origin", "Access-Control-Request-Method",
                        "Access-Control-Request-Headers")
                .exposedHeaders("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials")
                .allowCredentials(true).maxAge(3600);
    }
}

Security:

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class OAuth2SecurityConfiguration extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http
                .exceptionHandling().authenticationEntryPoint(authenticationEntryPoint).and()
                .formLogin()
                    .successHandler(ajaxSuccessHandler)
                    .failureHandler(ajaxFailureHandler)
                    .loginProcessingUrl("/authentication")
                    .passwordParameter("password")
                    .usernameParameter("username")
                .and()
                .logout()
                    .deleteCookies("JSESSIONID")
                    .invalidateHttpSession(true)
                    .logoutUrl("/logout")
                    .logoutSuccessUrl("/")
                .and()
                .csrf().disable()
                .anonymous().disable()
                .authorizeRequests()
                .antMatchers("/authentication").permitAll()
                .antMatchers("/oauth/token").permitAll()
                .antMatchers("/admin/*").access("hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN')")
                .antMatchers("/user/*").access("hasRole('ROLE_USER')");
    }
}

So, if I make a request to the url's which are not listened by security - CORS headers are set. Spring security URL's - not set.

Spring boot 1.4.1

Answer 1

Option 1 (Use WebMvcConfigurer bean):

The CORS configuration that you started with is not the proper way to do it with Spring Boot. You need to register a WebMvcConfigurer bean. Reference here.

Example Spring Boot CORS configuration:

@Configuration
@Profile("dev")
public class DevConfig {

    @Bean
    public WebMvcConfigurer corsConfigurer() {
        return new WebMvcConfigurerAdapter() {
            @Override
            public void addCorsMappings(CorsRegistry registry) {
                registry.addMapping("/**").allowedOrigins("http://localhost:4200");
            }
        };
    }

}

This will provide the CORS configuration for a basic (no security starter) Spring Boot application. Note that CORS support exists independent of Spring Security.

Once you introduce Spring Security, you need to register CORS with your security configuration. Spring Security is smart enough to pick up your existing CORS configuration.

@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
    http
        .cors().and()              
         ....

Option 2 (Use CorsConfigurationSource bean):

The first option I described is really from the perspective of adding Spring Security to an existing application. If you are adding Spring Security from the get-go, the way that is outlined in the Spring Security Docs involves adding a CorsConfigurationSource bean.

@EnableWebSecurity
public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http
            // by default uses a Bean by the name of corsConfigurationSource
            .cors().and()
            ...
    }

    @Bean
    CorsConfigurationSource corsConfigurationSource() {
        CorsConfiguration configuration = new CorsConfiguration();
        configuration.setAllowedOrigins(Arrays.asList("https://example.com"));
        configuration.setAllowedMethods(Arrays.asList("GET","POST"));
        UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource source = new UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource();
        source.registerCorsConfiguration("/**", configuration);
        return source;
    }
}