Previously, if the Principal returned by getPreAuthenticatedPrincipal was not a String,
it prevented requiresAuthentication from detecting when the Principal was the same.
This caused the need to authenticate the user for every request even when the Principal
did not change.
Now requiresAuthentication will check to see if the result of
getPreAuthenticatedPrincipal is equal to the current Authentication.getPrincipal().
Previously a NullPointerException would occur if an HttpServletRequest.getMethod()
returned null.
Now AntPathRequestMatcher and RegexpRequestMatcher will handle if the
HttpServletRequest.getMethod() returns null. While under normal circumstances,
it is unlikely for the method to be null this can occur when using
DefaultWebInvocationPrivilegeEvaluator.isAllowed(String, Authentication).
This can be used to generate the pom.xml for adding the Spring Security
snapshot jars as a Maven Dependency to another project. For example,
if mywebapp requires the Spring Security 3.1.4.CI-SNAPSHOT jars one
could generate the pom.xml files and then use that to convert the project
into a valid Maven project within the IDE. Then the SNAPSHOT dependendies
could be added to mywebapp. This prevents the need to install the SNAPSHOT
dependencies in the local Maven repository.
Previously the build would look up a server port dynamically, but since
it closed the port immediately it may not be reserved by the time jetty
started up.
We now reserve the port and do not close it till just before Jetty starts.
While there is still a race condition, it is much smaller window of time
than it was previously.
Previously authenticating a user could take significantly longer than
determining that a user does not exist. This was due to the fact that only
users that were found would use the password encoder and comparing a
password can take a significant amount of time. The difference in the
time required could allow a side channel attack that reveals if a user
exists.
The code has been updated to do comparison against a dummy password
even when the the user was not found.
Previously the SwitchUserFilter was logging as an error and then
throwing an Exception immediately after. This is not correct, since
whomever is catching the Exception should choose to log an error or not.
Now the log statement is at a debug level.
Previously there was a race condition could occur when the user attempts to access
a slow resource and then logs out which would result in the user not being logged
out.
SecurityContextLogoutHandler will now remove the Authentication from the
SecurityContext to protect against this scenario.
Rob Winch