WebApiSkeleton.Security 1.1.2

WebApiSkeleton.Security

WebApiSkeleton.Security is a NuGet package that provides tooling for authentication and authorization in .NET application or as a separate service.

Project description

• WebApiSkeleton.Security.Core - contains base models and abstractions that are used to implement core functionality, such as:
  • Internal database models and classes to interact with it;
  • Authentication and authorization settings (encryption, JWT parameters);
  • Models that describe authorization process (Role, User, Permission, Claim, etc.);
  • that are used to query the data or do actions on stored data.
• WebApiSkeleton.Security - security core implementation that is based on MediatR and other WebApiSkeleton MediatR-related packages. The main features are:
  • Requiring authorization on MediatR requests by using or persisting them in database;
  • Authentication and authorization process handling using MediatR pipeline behavior;
  • Applying custom authorization rules in authorization process;
  • User bruteforce detection using MediatR pipeline behavior;
  • Redis caching for permissions and roles.

NOTE: Core module does not make any validation or existence checks. All validation must be made in core implementations.

Usage

Register the dependencies

Core dependencies

Required core dependencies are added to DI container by using AddSecurityCore method. All configuration is done by modifying object.

The following settings are required and will throw if not specified or configured with errors:

• RedisConnectionSettings - contains the address of Redis database and database number to use;
• DatabaseOptions - DbContext configuration action and the setting of cross-request MediatR transactions (highly recommended to always be true);
• JwtSettings - JWT token settings that are used in creation process. Encryption key is required if UseJwtEncryption is true on configuration Has default values for some fields in TokenValidationParameters such as:
  • IssuerSigningKey will always automatically be set to SymmetricSecurityKey using provided SigningKey;
  • ValidateIssuerSigningKey will always be true;
  • ValidateLifetime will always be true;
  • ClockSkew will always be set to TimeSpan.Zero;
  • If UseJwtEncryption is true in configuration, then TokenDecryptionKey will always automatically be set to SymmetricSecurityKey using provided EncryptionKey;
• PasswordEncryptionKey - encryption key that is used for password hashing

Settings with default values that can be overriden if needed:

• IncludeUserClaimsInJwt - default is false. Not recommended to use if users will have too much claims as JWT token would not fit in cookie;
• UseJwtEncryption - default is false. Highly recommended to use but disabled for more clear debugging and testing of the JWT's;
• ValidationSettings - settings to validate usernames and passwords (not used in core module, left to use in implementations using the core).
  • Username default requirements:
    • Only latin symbols are allowed;
    • Digits and underscore are allowed;
    • Minimum length of 5 symbols;
    • Maximum length of 15 symbols;
  • Password default requirements:
    • At least one lowercase letter required;
    • At least one uppercase letter required;
    • At least one digit required;
    • At least one non-alphanumeric symbol required (@$!%*#?&)
    • Minimum length of 10 symbols;
• VerificationSettings - settings of email verification code. Verification code type and time to live can be set.
  • Default verification code type is 6 digit integer;
  • Type can be changed to GUID or random string.

MediatR implementation dependencies

Required MediatR implementation dependencies are added to DI container by using AddSecurityMediatR method. The one setting that can be changed is ContractPermissionStorageSettings that defines contract authorization requirements are stored in database or not.

NOTE: this is the only one method that automatically adds the bruteforce detection pipeline behavior for AuthorizationCommand. If you want to apply any pipeline behaviors before bruteforce check then apply them before calling this method.

Register pipeline behaviors

There are two ways to add Permission pipeline behaviors to DI to work correctly:

• Call AddPermissionPipelineBehaviorsForRequestsInAssemblies extension method on IServiceProvider. This way passed assemblies will be scanned for classes (or records) that implement IAuthorizedRequest<T> interface and automatically add them to DI. If non-generic interface used then the call will throw an InvalidOperationException.
  • NOTE: in this case PermissionBehavior for request is automatically added, so it is highly recommended to mind the order of IPipelineBehavior implementations added to DI.
• Create PermissionBehavior implementation type by using PermissionBehaviorCreator. GetPermissionPipelineBehaviorForRequest method returns pipelineBehavior as a service type and permissionBehavior as implementation type. After the tuple is returned, it is possible to manually add pipelines in DI in the required order.

Set up validation

MediatR implementation module contains validators for all of the commands using FluentValidation that are automatically added to DI container. Although, ValidationBehavior from WebApiSkeleton.Contracts.Validation is not automatically added and must be added manually using methods found in documentation.

NOTE: It is highly recommended to add ValidationBehavior after PermissionBehavior because of performance and security reasons.

Manage authentication and authorization

Authentication and authorization for requests are automatically managed by by using abstraction. The identity model is provided by implementation of . There is no default implementation within WebApiSkeleton.Security modules. As an example there is for ASP.NET Core that gets the UserIdentity from HttpContext.

NOTE: if there is no implementation for IUserIdentityProvider registered, is always returned.

Module interaction

Using core package, all interaction is done by using . These services do not implement any validity checks, so database-related exception are likely to be thrown if violating indexes and rules.

MediatR implementation module has all operations implemented in . All validation is done on request execution and will return faulted Result<T> if something is gone wrong.

NOTE: for validation to work, validation must be correctly configured.

Permissions

Permission can be granted to any user or role with corresponding . Restrict permission on any of entities completely forbids the usage of this permission (even if it is Allowed in any other).

Custom permissions

is the user-defined permission requirement. It has a type name that defines what it is used for. Key property defines the entity which is given the permission.

Contract permissions

MediatR request authorization requirements can be added in two ways:

1. - attribute defines compile-time permission and role names that are required to execute the request

[SecurityRequirements(RequiredPermissions = ["SetUserPassword"], RequiredRoles = ["SecurityAdmin"])]
public sealed record SetUserPasswordCommand(UserLoginOrIdFinder UserLoginOrId, string Password) : IAuthorizedRequest<None>, IValidatableRequest<None>;

2. - if StoreContractPermissions is set to true, permissions for contract names can be persisted in database and then used in PermissionBehavior to get required permissions. NOTE: in this case, contract permission is a custom permission type with default type name "ContractPermission", which can be changed in CustomPermissionTypeName property.

Example

Example projects for the service using WebApiSkeleton.Security MediatR implementation with different SQL providers can be found in .

Versioning

All projects are versioned using following format: major.minor.patch. Versioning rules for all projects:

• patch needs to be incremented when any minor change is made to the project, such as bugfixes or small project-specific features added
• minor needs to be incremented when new template-wide feature is implemented. In this case all of the projects must have the same version set
• major needs to be incremented when the WebApiSkeleton template has experienced significant changes, that need to upgrade all of the template packages. In this case all of the projects must have the same version set