I have seen lot of examples where, there is a custom Login page with Angular JS, and then we make a rest POST call with the username/pwd, and then Spring authenticates based on whatever Auth Service we provide. Then we receive a success, grab the user object from Spring Security and then create a Session cookie in Angular.
https://github.com/witoldsz/angular-http-auth/blob/master/src/http-auth-interceptor.js
I also have seen, integrating Siteminder with Spring Security where we install a policy agent on the web server, and then grab request headers with Spring Security, and then pull the roles and build a user profile object.
I'm looking for a solution where I can combine both the above. This is the scenario :
When the user requests for index.html (Angular), the policy agent on the web server intercepts, authenticates with a Siteminder login page and then passes the headers to the app server. The Spring Security on app server will read the headers and pull the roles from our app database and then build a userprofile object. Now here, I want to continue the flow and display angular page, but Im trying to figure out, how do I send the user profile object to angular, because angular is not making a POST call at this point. Also, how do I get the http-auth-interceptor in play, because I need to keep checking if the user is still authenticated on the change of every view/state in Angular.
Help appreciated ! Thanks !
You may implement a tiny JSON REST service "/your-app/profile" which is protected by SiteMinder, reads and evaluates the headers and returns the result as a JSON object.
Your Angular App (e.g. /your-app/index.html) should better also be protected by SiteMinder so you receive an immediate redirect to the SSO Login when accessing it without session. In addition, it must read the JSON REST resource "/your-app/profile" when loaded. It must also expect that SMSESSION is missing when reading "/your-app/profile" and react accordingly - perform a reload of the protected index.html page to trigger a SM SSO re-login (if "/your-app/index.html" is protected, otherwise you must trigger login by a redirect to some protected resource).
If you want to constantly check to see if SiteMinder session is still present, you may either access the "/your-app/profile" or check for the presence of the SMSESSION cookie (only in case it is not set as HTTP-only).
One SECURITY NOTE: If you rely on the seamless SSO which is provided via SMSESSION cookie, be aware of the possible CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks!
Apparently both roles and the username will be available in spring if the integration is done as this describes
Integrating Spring Security with SiteMinder
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Hi I am exploring some of the authentication and authorization flows with respect to azure active directory. I was using previously oath implicit flow in single page application. After spending time in reading microsoft documentation, I have understood following with respect to implicit flow.
Implicit Flow:
Single page javacript application uses implicit flow to get obtain access token from azure active directory. It directly calls token endpoint to obtain the token so this makes implicit flow less secure.
Authorization Folw in .Net Web application
Whenever we use .Net core web mvc application with authorization code flow, first call will happen in browser to authorization endpoint to get code. In browser we could see the request made to authorization end point. In request url I will pass response type as code then client id and redirect ui. Here first handshake take place between browser and authorization end point. This handshake returns code to the redirect uri. Next part, application has to make POST request to token endpoint to get access token. Code received in first step I will send in token request. In this request I will include client secrete also, redierct uri also. But whenever I make first GET request to authorization endpoint I will not pass client secrete. This is because Its not good to expose secrete in browser. So in second post request I will include client secrete also. Once I get access token I will add it in api request header to make secured call to apis.
This is the authorization code flow flavor I have understood with respect to .Net core web application. now I have another flavor of authorization code with respect to single page application.
Authorization Code Flow in React Web App
I have SPA react application which uses MSAL library. I have cloned sample application from github https://github.com/Azure-Samples/ms-identity-javascript-react-tutorial/tree/main/3-Authorization-II/1-call-api/SPA.
Whenever I run this application, and sign in first call will happen as below
https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/discovery/instance?api-version=1.1&authorization_endpoint=https://login.microsoftonline.com/c5ffa990-7e0a-4bf6-6c04-79ab98e05931/oauth2/v2.0/authorize
I am trying to understand this request. I have query string appended to the url authorization_endpoint=https://login.microsoftonline.com/c5ffa990-7e0a-4bf6-6c04-79ab98e05931/oauth2/v2.0/authorize so this may be used to return the code from authorization server.
Immediately next call will happen https://login.microsoftonline.com/c5ffa990-7e0a-4bf6-6c04-79ab98e05931/oauth2/v2.0/token
to get access token and in request in FormData section I could see following parameters
client_d, redirect_uri,scope,code
In code I see some code value hopefully received from authorization endpoint. anyway this api returned me access_token.
Now coming to conclusion, In .Net core web application and React SPA application both places I am using authorization code flow.
In .Net core authorization code flow I am making use of client secrete whenever trying to obtain access token. All this happen in server side in secure manner. In react also I am using Authorization code flow but I am not using Client secrete anywhere.
In react app also I am making two requests one for authorization endpoint to get code and another to get token. All this I can see in browser itself but then How can I consider this is as secure?
In .Net web app and react app both apps making use of authorization code flow but it behaves independently depends on the type of application.
After going through several documents and videos over the internet I concluded myself as
When Authorization code flow used with server side web apps like .Net core MVC, It makes use of client_secrete to get access token and this call will happen in server side so client secrete not exposed through browser to the users
When Authorization flow used SPA applications without server side support, first it will make call to get authorization code then It will make post request to get access token WITHOUT client_secrete.The only way the authorization code grant with no client secret can be secure is by using the “state” parameter and restricting the redirect URL to trusted clients.
So I am concluding myself as when we use server side web app with authorization code flow we can make use of client secrete but in case of SPA we are not making use of client_secrete.
I have understood above concepts and explained what I understood and also I listed the confusions I got after implementing 2 flavors of authorization code flow in web app and spa app. can someone help me If my understanding is correct or not, If my understanding is wrong, where exactly I understood wrong? Can anyone help me with respect to this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Authcode flow is an OAuth 2.0 workflow, you can use it in any kind of client (Web/mobile/SPA).
Clients should be using MSAL library to communicate with AAD/B2C with PKCE which is used to secure authorization code grants via Proof Key for Code Exchange (code_challenge) with S256 encryption.
Authcode Grant Flow spec:
If you are using B2C, your entry endpoint is:
https://{tenant}.b2clogin.com/{tenant}.onmicrosoft.com/{policy}/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?
client_id=90c0fe63-bcf2-44d5-8fb7-b8bbc0b29dc6
&response_type=code
&redirect_uri=urn%3Aietf%3Awg%3Aoauth%3A2.0%3Aoob
&response_mode=query
&scope=90c0fe63-bcf2-44d5-8fb7-b8bbc0b29dc6%20offline_access
&state=arbitrary_data_you_can_receive_in_the_response
&code_challenge=YTFjNjI1OWYzMzA3MTI4ZDY2Njg5M2RkNmVjNDE5YmEyZGRhOGYyM2IzNjdmZWFhMTQ1ODg3NDcxY2Nl
&code_challenge_method=S256
that will display the SignIn-SignUp-Social Login Form. Just navigate to this URL with you App ClientId registered inside B2C.
You also can take a look to the custom policies starter pack to adapt your workflow to your needs (claims).
If you change response_type=code for response_type=id_token you will get a Token that can be used to authenticate against your restricted resources (API's) after all login process.
Or you can use a second call to the token endpoint to get it.
Token endpoint:
POST https://{tenant}.b2clogin.com/{tenant}.onmicrosoft.com/{policy}/oauth2/v2.0/token HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
grant_type=authorization_code&client_id=90c0fe63-bcf2-44d5-8fb7-b8bbc0b29dc6&scope=90c0fe63-bcf2-44d5-8fb7-b8bbc0b29dc6 offline_access&code=AwABAAAAvPM1KaPlrEqdFSBzjqfTGBCmLdgfSTLEMPGYuNHSUYBrq...&redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob&code_verifier=ThisIsntRandomButItNeedsToBe43CharactersLong
code=XXXXXXXXXXXXX parameter is the access_code returned from first GET request.
Solutions to this is to switch to implicit flow, where there is no need of exchanging code for access token. But keeping access token in web application still vulnerable as this can be exposed using XSS or similar kind of attacks.
Other best practice is https://curity.io/resources/learn/the-token-handler-pattern/
I have a Angular + Spring boot single page web app. The server also acts as an Auth Server which issues tokens for the angular app to use to make Restful API calls.
My old login flow uses a grant_type=password POST call to the /oauth/token endpoint to get a Bearer token. And all further API calls on behalf of the user will include the Bearer token as the "Authorization" http header.
Now I need to integrate social login (facebook, twitter, etc.), which means I don't have username/password to generate tokens so I'm not sure how to make it work.
I have been using the following two tutorials as my template:
Spring Security and Angular JS
Spring Boot and OAuth
In the first tutorial's oauth-vanilla example, the username passwork login flow brings up the authorization page. But I'd like to have the traditional username/password form login experience (log user in directly instead of showing the Authorization page).
In the second tutorial, after facebook login, I'd like to use the facebook id to look up my internal user database and create a new user if not exist and logs him in as the user. And use the internal db user's identity and authorities to authorize future API calls to my API server.
I have a stripped down sample at at
https://github.com/dingquan/spring-angular-oauth
I can make POST calls to /oauth/token endpoint and use the returned token to make further api calls to my protected /api/blogs endpoint. But I haven't figure out how to make the following things work:
Username/password login that will create a session cookie so I don't need to send the Authorization bearer token for future API calls to the resource endpoint
After facebook login (the facebook login link is under the username/password login form), calls to my endpoint still fails with 401 error (I have a "test" button that makes a get call to /api/blogs, you can click on it to see the behavior). So what am I missing to make the API call succeed?
=== UPDATE ===
Just to clarify. Here are the goals I'm trying to achieve:
multiple ways of authentication (traditional username/password, third party oauth login such as facebook, possibly cellphone number + SMS code in the future)
we do need our own user model backed by DB to store other user attributes, pure social login is not enough
social login needs to be implicit. Meaning user should not be required to create a user account in our system manually once they login through a 3rd party (facebook, etc.). We're not just grabbing users' social profile data to pre-populate the registration form. We want to create new DB users automatically behind the scene if no existing db user is associated with the given external social account. i.e. if user is logged in through facebook, they don't need to enter username/password. Authentication through facebook will automatically log the user into our system as well and user should be able to access restricted resources after facebook login.
There's some confusion that I might be asking people to put their facebook username/password in a login form hosted by my app and I'll login facebook on behalf of the user. That's not what I was asking for.
You don't need such a complicated configuration. Add #EnableOAuth2Sso to your MainConfiguration and set appropriate application properties.
Here is what I have done in order to use Facebook as a authorization server.
a) Remove clientId and authServer from UserServiceImpl. Otherwise you'll be forced to configure an authorization server that is not needed.
b) Remove AuthorizationServerConfiguration completely.
c) Add #EnableWebSecurity and #EnableOAuth2Sso to your MainConfiguration.
d) Change MainConfiguration::configure to
http
.logout().logoutSuccessUrl("/").permitAll().and()
.authorizeRequests().antMatchers("/", "/login", "/home.html").permitAll()
.anyRequest().authenticated()
.and().csrf().csrfTokenRepository(CookieCsrfTokenRepository.withHttpOnlyFalse());
e) Delete everything else except nested class AuthenticationSecurity from MainConfiguration.
f) Change ResourceServerConfiguration::configure(HttpSecurity) to
http.antMatcher("/api/**").authorizeRequests().anyRequest().authenticated();
f) Remove attribute tokenStore and method ResourceServerConfiguration::configure(ResourceServerSecurityConfigurer) from ResourceServerConfiguration.
g) Remove configuration block security and facebook from application.yml. Instead add this
security:
oauth2:
client:
client-id: <CLIENT_ID>
token-name: oauth_token
authentication-scheme: query
client-authentication-scheme: form
access-token-uri: https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token
user-authorization-uri: https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth
resource:
user-info-uri: https://graph.facebook.com/me
client-id: <CLIENT_ID>
client-secret: <CLIENT_SECRET>
token-type: code
h) In index.html change login to login.
i) Replace the content of hello.js with this one.
But I'd like to have the traditional username/password form login experience (log user in directly instead of showing the Authorization page).
I would never use a site that requires my credentials without redirecting me to the origin! I don't know you and you are under suspicion being a phishing site.
You should really reconsider your decision.
Btw, I created a pull request with these changes.
I'm building a multi tenant app using Angular and Node.js, is it wise to have the same API for both Front End users (Public) and Admin Area users (Tenants)?
The Admin Area will require authentication for viewing and modifying sensitive data but I don't see why the rest of the API can't be left open for the front end which is only querying data?
Is this a good idea? Will it cause problems further down the line?
I'm looking to go for the following application structure:
Front end: tenant-name.domain.com (Open to public)
Admin area: domain.com/admin (with login and token auth)
API: api.domain.com
Would it be a good idea to have the client's front end authenticate with the API?
I would suggest that the admin area API calls require an auth token to be passed on all API calls. You can inject the token into the headers with http request interceptors in Angular. A user who does not already have an auth token should have to log in to get one. The injected auth token should be all the security you need.
I'll suggest you to create a token when an anonymous user requests your API. Reason for that is that you can always identify who requested what.
I'm trying to understand how an saml authentication flow could work in a mobile environment where the client (AngularJS based), api server (Node & passport based), and idp exist on different domains.
From what I've gathered the general practice is to have the server return a 401 to the client if there's no authentication present (i.e. the client didn't include a bearer token in the request). The client understands that a 401 response indicates to open up the login endpoint on the server. When the login endpoint is opened it makes a passport call to the auth provider (which redirects the user to the auth provider's site) and supplies a callback URL. When the user authenticates, the auth provider redirects to the provided callback URL, which allows the server to retrieve information from the auth provider's response and construct a token of some sort (e.g. JWT) that can be used by the client (i.e. included in the headers) when making REST calls to identify itself.
My question is: How does the client get the token from the server? Because we're in a redirect-based authentication flow, I can't just return token from the callback function; that would just display the token in the browser without handing it off of to the client. Does the server just issue a 302 redirect pointing back to the client domain and include the authentication token in a header? Maybe I should not redirect from the client to the server in the first place and instead window.open() and use window.opener.postMessage or is that too old fashioned/mobile-unfriendly?
This question talks about authentication against a SAML IDP, but I'm interested in getting more details specifically about that last bullet point and how it would work with an AngularJS-based client.
Many examples I've seen online are either a single domain using OAuth/SAML (passport-saml-example), which avoids the issue of having the client exist on a separate domain, or use two domains with basic authentication, which avoids the issue of redirecting to some third party for authentication, but I'm having trouble finding good examples that uses all the bits and pieces I'm trying to work with.
This blog post seems very close to what I'm trying to accomplish (see googleSignInCallback) and uses a 302 redirect like I imagined but that solution relies on explicitly knowing the client URL to redirect to, which seems like it could be problematic if I wanted to support multiple client types (i.e. Native applications) in the future.
Eventually I was able to work together a solution by having my application open a browser window (Cordova's InAppBrowser) to a SAML-enabled application, have that application complete the normal SAML flow, and then that SAML-enabled application generated a JWT. My mobile application was then able to extract the JWT string from the browser window with the InAppBrowser's executeScript functionality. Then I could pass that JWT string along to my API server, which was able to validate the JWT is properly signed and trusted.
After I implemented my solution I saw that there was similar functionality available on github:
https://github.com/feedhenry-templates/saml-service
https://github.com/feedhenry-templates/saml-cloud-app
https://github.com/feedhenry-templates/saml-cordova-app
Hopefully this helps anyone else trying to deal with this issue!
I'm developing an AngularJS app used by third part applications. The third part application and my AngularJS application have a common database where users preferences/credentials are stored. User can login from the third part application and, by redirecting the user into my application, I need to maintain the user logged in, without asking a new authentication procedure.
I can't use cookies because the two applications are in two different domains.
I can't pass a session TOKEN (correspondant to the user logged iin) in query parameters due to man in the middle risks.
Is it possible to make a POST request to an angularJS page? Third part app call my AngularJS login page POSTing a token in the body request. My app take the token, verifyies it and log-in the user.
Constraints:
App in different domains;
Maintain user logged in;
No sharing cookies;
Try to prevent man in the middle;
No query parameters;
HTTPS protocol;
web based applications.
Am I missing something in the https protocols/sharing sessions?
Are there other solutions supported by AngularJS?
How can I redirect the user from one application to another and maintaining the user logged in in a simple way? Is there a simple flow I haven't figured out?
AngularJS is based on REST api communications. I can ask for a webpage (GET the webpage), but I can't make a POST to an AngularJS page. Is there a way to pass/share some values from the first application to my second app in a secure way?