diff --git a/config/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/config/annotation/web/builders/HttpSecurity.java b/config/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/config/annotation/web/builders/HttpSecurity.java
index 6bd5c3204a..f77546531d 100644
--- a/config/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/config/annotation/web/builders/HttpSecurity.java
+++ b/config/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/config/annotation/web/builders/HttpSecurity.java
@@ -1313,9 +1313,11 @@ public final class HttpSecurity extends AbstractConfiguredSecurityBuilder<Defaul
      * @since 3.2
      */
     public final class RequestMatcherConfigurer extends AbstractRequestMatcherRegistry<RequestMatcherConfigurer> {
+        private List<RequestMatcher> matchers = new ArrayList<RequestMatcher>();
 
         protected RequestMatcherConfigurer chainRequestMatchers(List<RequestMatcher> requestMatchers) {
-            requestMatcher(new OrRequestMatcher(requestMatchers));
+            matchers.addAll(requestMatchers);
+            requestMatcher(new OrRequestMatcher(matchers));
             return this;
         }
 
diff --git a/config/src/test/groovy/org/springframework/security/config/annotation/web/configurers/RequestMatcherConfigurerTests.groovy b/config/src/test/groovy/org/springframework/security/config/annotation/web/configurers/RequestMatcherConfigurerTests.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4df6a7e097
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/src/test/groovy/org/springframework/security/config/annotation/web/configurers/RequestMatcherConfigurerTests.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configurers
+
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse
+
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration
+import org.springframework.mock.web.MockFilterChain
+import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletRequest
+import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletResponse
+import org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationTrustResolver;
+import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.AnyObjectPostProcessor
+import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.BaseSpringSpec
+import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.authentication.builders.AuthenticationManagerBuilder
+import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.builders.HttpSecurity
+import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.EnableWebSecurity
+import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
+import org.springframework.security.config.http.SessionCreationPolicy
+import org.springframework.security.core.session.SessionDestroyedEvent
+import org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter
+import org.springframework.security.web.authentication.session.CompositeSessionAuthenticationStrategy
+import org.springframework.security.web.authentication.session.ConcurrentSessionControlAuthenticationStrategy
+import org.springframework.security.web.authentication.session.RegisterSessionAuthenticationStrategy
+import org.springframework.security.web.context.NullSecurityContextRepository
+import org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter
+import org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextRepository
+import org.springframework.security.web.savedrequest.RequestCache
+import org.springframework.security.web.session.ConcurrentSessionFilter
+import org.springframework.security.web.session.HttpSessionDestroyedEvent;
+import org.springframework.security.web.session.SessionManagementFilter
+
+import spock.lang.Unroll;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author Rob Winch
+ */
+class RequestMatcherConfigurerTests extends BaseSpringSpec {
+
+
+    @Unroll
+    def "SEC-2908 - multiple invocations of authorizeRequests() chains #path"(def path) {
+        setup:
+            loadConfig(Sec2908Config)
+            request.servletPath = path
+        when:
+            springSecurityFilterChain.doFilter(request,response,chain)
+        then:
+            response.status == HttpServletResponse.SC_FORBIDDEN
+        where:
+            path << ['/oauth/abc','/api/abc']
+    }
+
+    @Configuration
+    @EnableWebSecurity
+    static class Sec2908Config extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
+
+         @Override
+         protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
+             http
+                .requestMatchers()
+                    .antMatchers("/api/**")
+                    .and()
+                 .requestMatchers()
+                    .antMatchers("/oauth/**")
+                    .and()
+                 .authorizeRequests()
+                    .anyRequest().denyAll();
+        }
+    }
+}