SR-D23862 · Issue 503896
Corrected test connection for LDAP AuthService using keystore
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.4
When using a AuthService rule defined for LDAP using ldaps:// and a KeyStore rule that was defined to reference a local file in the server, the Test Connection button on the AuthService rule did not work and generated the following exception: "com.pega.apache.commons.httpclient.contrib.ssl.AuthSSLInitializationError: I/O error reading keystore/truststore file: null". Investigation showed that file reference keystore did not work with an LDAPS test connection because while run time used the LDAPVerifyCredentials activity, the design time validation used the activity “ValidateInfrastructure” which did not have the required code to support file reference keystore. This has been corrected.
SR-D25972 · Issue 501482
Handling added for custom error message in post-authentication activity
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.4
The error message in post authentication activity was always appearing as 'Login terminated because a post-authentication activity or policy failed' irrespective of the actual message being conditionally set in the activity based on post authentication logic. Investigation showed that the parameter page in the SSO post-authentication activity was not being passed to the 'pzShowAuthPolicyError' activity due to the post-authentication activity executing in authenticated context whereas the HTML fragment executed in the un-authenticated context. In order to support this use, post-authentication activity will set the error message on a predefined property and propagate that to the HTML fragment by appending the error message as a query parameter in the redirect exception URL post-authentication failure.
SR-131072 · Issue 203709
Requestor token creation added for PRExternal authentication
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.9
When using a PRExternal authentication scheme, the csrfsession requestor token was not created. This caused a heavy volume of INFO logging messages in production due to the null token. This authentication path has now been added and the token will be correctly created for use.
SR-A4056 · Issue 211550
Corrected validation error for Extract rule field length
Resolved in Pega Version 7.1.9
A validation error noting that the field length of the table was limited to 30 characters was occurring when trying to check in an Extract rule even if the field value had been shortened. While checking in the extract rule, a block of code in the Rule-Utility-Function validateTreeProperties was recomputing the pagelist's table name instead of using the one provided by the user. The Rule-Utility-Function validateTreeProperties function has been modified to fix the issue.
SR-D29485 · Issue 503511
Enhancement added to modify URL encryption for load testing
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.4
An enhancement has been added which allows conditionally modifying URL encryption for load testing. This uses the flag crypto/useportablecipherforurlencryption: if true, a portable hardcoded key is used to encrypt the URLs and if false, a dynamically generated key per thread/requestor is used to encrypt the URL.
SR-D21803 · Issue 502130
Cross-site scripting protection added for embedded portal URI
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.4
The URI used in the top window of embedded portals has been encoded to prevent DOM based cross-site scripting.
SR-A15922 · Issue 231258
Support added for cleartext passwords in Snapstart
Resolved in Pega Version 7.2.1
When posting credentials from an external source, the code makes the assumption that the Password value is encoded and therefore it is decoded prior to being handed to the authentication activity in Pega. This is not always the case. If the Password value is passed as clear text the result in the activity is garbled. This creates problems when subsequent authentication is attempted to an external source. To support this handling, a new DASS 'authentication/Snapstart/pwddecode' has been added. When the setting is false, the password is not decoded in Snapstart cases and will necessitate a cleartext password.
SR-A19297 · Issue 237347
Added ability to set custom HTTP security headers
Resolved in Pega Version 7.2.1
XSS protections were interfering with the ability to set custom HTTP headers. To enable this, the system will use dynamic system settings from http/responseHeaders and add them to every HTTP response.
SR-D38581 · Issue 504775
Removed unnecessary cross-site scripting filtering on paragraph rule
Resolved in Pega Version 8.2.4
When a link was set in a paragraph rule, the target option was removed in the returned layout structure. This was traced to unnecessary XSS filtering which has now been removed.
SR-A24508 · Issue 246983
Apache Struts updated for security
Resolved in Pega Version 7.2.1
Apache Struts has been updated to version 2.3.28 to protect against potential security vulnerabilities exposed when Dynamic Method Invocation is enabled, removing the ability for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via method: prefix, related to chained expressions.