fix(openapi): add securitySchemes and global security requirement to OpenAPI spec

[mbiuki]

Summary

Fixes #34996

The OpenAPI spec at /api/openapi.json declared security: [] globally with no securitySchemes defined, documenting all 689 endpoints as unauthenticated even though the server enforces auth on the vast majority of them.

• Add @SecuritySchemes to DotRestApplication — three schemes matching the actual auth waterfall in WebResource.java: ApiToken (JWT Bearer), BasicAuth (HTTP Basic), DotAuth (DOTAUTH header)
• Set global security default in @OpenAPIDefinition — all endpoints now require auth in the spec unless explicitly overridden
• Mark 16 genuinely public endpoints with security = {} override: health/liveness/readiness checks (required for k8s probes), login, forgot password, and all SAML SSO flow endpoints

Files Changed

File	Change
DotRestApplication.java	Add @SecuritySchemes + global security to @OpenAPIDefinition
HealthResource.java	security = {} on all 8 health endpoints
AuthenticationResource.java	security = {} on login + logInUser
ForgotPasswordResource.java	security = {} on forgot password
DotSamlResource.java	security = {} on all 5 SAML SSO endpoints

Test Plan

• curl https://<instance>/api/openapi.json | jq '.components.securitySchemes' — should return ApiToken, BasicAuth, DotAuth schemes
• curl https://<instance>/api/openapi.json | jq '.security' — should return [{"ApiToken":[]},{"BasicAuth":[]}]
• Verify health endpoints still have "security": [] in the generated spec
• Verify SAML, login, and forgot-password endpoints have "security": []
• Run spec through 42Crunch or OWASP ZAP — admin/infra endpoints should no longer be flagged as unauthenticated
• Confirm dotCMS starts and /api/openapi.json is served without errors

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Code Review

• Gather context (diff of 5 changed files)
• Analyze security scheme annotations
• Check generated openapi.yaml regeneration
• Post review

New Issues

• 🟠 High: dotCMS/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/openapi/openapi.yaml (not in PR) — The generated OpenAPI spec was not regenerated or committed. Per CLAUDE.md, openapi.yaml is auto-generated by swagger-maven-plugin at compile and CI verifies the committed file matches the build output. The current committed openapi.yaml has no components.securitySchemes, no top-level security: block, and no per-operation security: [] overrides — none of this PR's intended output. Two consequences: (1) the "did the generated spec change?" CI gate will fail, and (2) nothing in this PR actually ships the fix described in the summary — the whole point is a change to the generated spec, and that artifact is unchanged. Regenerate and commit alongside the Java changes:

  ./mvnw compile -pl :dotcms-core --am -DskipTests
  git add dotCMS/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/openapi/openapi.yaml

  Fix this →

Notes (non-blocking)

• 🟡 Medium: DotSamlResource.java:33, AuthenticationResource.java:42, ForgotPasswordResource.java:42, HealthResource.java:22 — the added import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.security.SecurityRequirement; is unused in all four files. They only use security = {} (an empty array literal), which never references the SecurityRequirement type by name. Only DotRestApplication.java actually uses @SecurityRequirement(...). Remove the four unused imports.

• 🟡 Medium: DotRestApplication.java:49 — the DotAuth scheme is defined but never referenced by any @SecurityRequirement, either in the global security (which lists only ApiToken and BasicAuth) or on any operation. Since WebResource.java's auth waterfall accepts the DOTAUTH header, consider adding @SecurityRequirement(name = "DotAuth") to the global security so the spec reflects it as an accepted mechanism — otherwise it's a defined-but-dangling scheme.

• 🟡 Medium: AuthenticationResource.java:229 — security = {} is applied to logInUser ("information about any users currently in a session"). Confirm this endpoint genuinely functions without credentials; if it returns authenticated session data, documenting it as fully public is misleading. The other 15 overrides (health probes, login, forgot-password, SAML SSO) are appropriate.

The annotation approach itself is correct: @SecuritySchemes + a global @SecurityRequirement default with per-operation security = {} overrides is the right OpenAPI pattern, and the empty-array override correctly marks an operation public.

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[mbiuki]

Security assessment

CVSS 4.0	N/A: PR that corrects OpenAPI securitySchemes; documentation accuracy only, no runtime auth change.
Priority	P4 · due 2027-03-16 (one year, 365 days from 2026-03-16) · project #7 (dotCMS - Product Planning): P4 - Low
Weakness	CWE-1059 Insufficient Technical Documentation

Why this priority: PR that corrects OpenAPI securitySchemes; documentation accuracy only, no runtime auth change.

Labels: already correct, no change.

Automated triage by the dotCMS Security team (Claude), 2026-10-06. To override, change the project's Priority field or the CVSS label. The next refresh keeps a manual change.

[fabrizzio-dotCMS]

The goal is right, but the PR doesn't produce the spec it describes yet.

1. @Operation(security = {}) is a no-op in swagger-core 2.2.34. SecurityParser.getSecurityRequirements returns Optional.empty() for a zero-length array, so nothing is set on the operation and it inherits the new global ApiToken/BasicAuth requirement. Login, forgot-password and SAML would be documented as authenticated. Method-level @SecurityRequirement goes through the same parser, so there's no annotation-only way to override the global value with an empty list. Suggest a ReaderListener#afterScan that does operation.setSecurity(new ArrayList<>()) on operations flagged public (e.g. an x-public extension).

2. Nine of the 16 "public" endpoints are not public.

• All 8 HealthResource endpoints call isAccessAllowed, which requires the CMS Admin role unless health.detailed.authentication.required=false (default true). K8s probes use /dotmgt/livez and /dotmgt/readyz (web.xml), not /api/v1/health.
• DotSamlResource#metadata requires an admin backend user (its own description says so).

The 7 that are really public: authentication, logInUser, forgot password, SAML login (GET + callback POST), SAML logout (GET + POST).

3. DotAuth is declared but not in the global requirement, so the spec says no endpoint accepts DOTAUTH while WebResource accepts it everywhere. Add it or drop the scheme.

4. openapi.yaml not regenerated. CI compares it against the build output. Please regenerate (./mvnw compile -pl :dotcms-core --am -DskipTests), commit it, and check that only those 7 operations end up with security: [].

Nit: unused SecurityRequirement import in HealthResource, AuthenticationResource, ForgotPasswordResource and DotSamlResource.