How to reload Spring Security Principal after updating in Hibernate?
OK dug around and finally found the answer. We can create a UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken and assign the updated Principal to the context. Authentication authentication = new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(userObject, userObject.getPassword(), userObject.getAuthorities()); SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(authentication); See also “How to manually set an authenticated user in Spring Security / SpringMVC”.