Oracle Siebel Authentication

generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://docs.oracle.com/cd/G30562_01/books/Secur/c-Using-OAuth-with-REST-Inbound-Web-Services.html,
  https://docs.oracle.com/cd/G30554_01/books/RestAPI/c-About-Supported-HTTP-Header-Fields--ti1009563.html,
  https://docs.oracle.com/cd/F26413_26/books/Secur/single-sign-on-authentication.html,
  https://docs.oracle.com/cd/F26413_26/books/Secur/index.html —
  upgraded from the securityScheme baseline derived out of openapi/*.yml
docs: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/F26413_26/books/Secur/index.html
provider: Oracle Siebel
providerId: oracle-siebel
summary: >-
  Siebel REST authentication is decided by ONE server-side setting: the
  Authentication type in siebsrvr.properties. Set it to Basic or SSO and callers
  send `Authorization: Basic`; set it to OAuth and callers send `Authorization:
  Bearer`. There is no per-client choice, and there is no API key. Siebel is a
  resource server only — it never issues a token. Bearer tokens come from an
  external OAuth provider and are validated by INTROSPECTION over HTTPS on every
  call.
summary_types:
  types:
    - http
    - oauth2
  oauth2_flows:
    - external
  api_keys: false
schemes:
  - name: basicAuth
    type: http
    scheme: basic
    header: 'Authorization: Basic <base64(user:password)>'
    description: >-
      HTTP Basic authentication using Siebel CRM user credentials. Applies when
      the Authentication type configured in siebsrvr.properties is Basic or SSO.
      The authenticated Siebel user's position and responsibilities determine
      record visibility, so authorization is data-level rather than scope-level.
    sources:
      - openapi/*.yml
      - https://docs.oracle.com/cd/G30554_01/books/RestAPI/c-About-Supported-HTTP-Header-Fields--ti1009563.html
  - name: oauth2
    type: oauth2
    header: 'Authorization: Bearer <access_token>'
    role: resource-server
    description: >-
      OAuth 2.0 bearer-token access. Applies when the Authentication type
      configured in siebsrvr.properties is OAuth.
    token_issuer: external
    validation:
      method: introspection
      rfc: RFC 7662
      statement: >-
        "The Siebel application supports only the introspection method of
        validating incoming access tokens." Signature-based validation of JWTs is
        explicitly unavailable.
      transport: >-
        The Siebel REST API layer contacts the OAuth server over a secure channel
        (HTTPS) to validate the received access token or obtain additional token
        information. The OAuth server's certificates must be installed in the
        environment hosting the Siebel REST API.
      workaround: >-
        If JWTs must be validated by signature, validation has to happen at an
        API gateway BEFORE the request reaches Siebel.
    scope_handling: >-
      "If the token scope is used while retrieving the token, then the token
      scope must match the executed operation." Scope names are defined by the
      customer's own OAuth provider — Siebel publishes no scope registry.
    prerequisite: >-
      The Siebel Object Manager must be configured for SSO when OAuth is enabled
      for authentication.
    sources:
      - openapi/*.yml
      - https://docs.oracle.com/cd/G30562_01/books/Secur/c-Using-OAuth-with-REST-Inbound-Web-Services.html
configuration:
  file: siebsrvr.properties
  parameter: Authentication type
  values:
    - Basic
    - SSO
    - OAuth
  note: >-
    Server-wide. A single Siebel Application Interface cannot offer Basic to one
    caller and Bearer to another.
authorization_model:
  style: data-visibility
  mechanism: >-
    Siebel authorizes by Siebel responsibilities, positions and organization
    visibility, applied per Business Component and modulated at call time by the
    ViewMode query parameter. There are no API permissions, no roles exposed over
    REST, and no scope-to-operation mapping.
  see_also: scopes/oracle-siebel-scopes.yml
spec_discrepancy:
  finding: >-
    The OpenAPI documents in openapi/ declare an oauth2 authorizationCode flow
    with authorizationUrl https://{siebel-server}/siebel/v1.0/auth/authorize and
    tokenUrl https://{siebel-server}/siebel/v1.0/auth/token. Oracle documents no
    such endpoints. Siebel does not host an authorization server; it validates
    tokens issued elsewhere. Those two URLs should be read as spec-authoring
    placeholders, not as callable endpoints.
  action: >-
    Recorded here and in overlays/ rather than silently propagated. Nothing in
    this artifact is derived from those two URLs.
mcp_authentication:
  runtime: Siebel AI Connectors
  scheme: oauth2-jwt
  note: >-
    The MCP runtime validates JWTs LOCALLY against a configured issuer,
    audience, required scope and JWKS URI — the opposite of the Siebel REST
    layer, which cannot do signature validation. See mcp/oracle-siebel-mcp.yml.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com