INC-200303 · Issue 692846
OIDC authentication service token reload updated
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
The exception “PRSecurityException: Invalid State Parameter received" was generated along with "Unable to execute OIDC flow : Caught exception while parsing the id token”. The issue was identified in the Keystore cache refresh strategy for the 'reload once per interaction' option. While the Refresh interval was one minute for reload once per interaction, if there was a login request/keystore request in that one minute then the refresh interval was pushed to one minute again from that timestamp. The system was also maintaining the cache refresh interval as one minute. That meant if there were continuous requests, then the refresh interval was pushed to one minute for each request. As a result, the Refresh interval was repeatedly extended until the exception occurred. To resolve this, the Refresh token will happen if there are no requests for a period of one minute, and the cache refresh interval for "Reload once per iteration" has been removed completely.
INC-200877 · Issue 693824
Functions supported in Authorization Service
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
An enhancement has been added to support operator page context evaluation with a Rule-Utility-Function during property mapping evaluation.
INC-201573 · Issue 694750
Client secret made optional for JWT Bearer Grant type
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
After update, trying to connect a REST API using OpenAM as the provider for OAuth and using JWT Bearer as Grant type was resulting in an error indicating the request was not reaching the destination. This was traced to the client secret being designated a mandatory field when it should be optional in this case as the required key store was already configured with a JWT token profile. To resolve this, an update has been made which will make the client secret optional when the authentication scheme is JWT Bearer. In addition, the blank value caused a null pointer error when the client secret was not passed. This has been handled with a check.
INC-204045 · Issue 694323
Signature map updated for fetching keys
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
MFA login worked with SAML 2.0 when the certificate was disabled but failed when the certificate was enabled in Auth Service. The error " "Signature algorithm is null" appeared. This has been resolved by updating the signature map to ignore case sensitivity while fetching keys.
INC-204897 · Issue 696148
Log4j file security vulnerability issue addressed
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.3
A zero-day vulnerability was identified in the Apache Log4j logging software which could potentially allow malicious actors to take control of organizational networks. Pega has immediately and thoroughly addressed this issue. More information can be found at https://docs.pega.com/security-advisory/security-advisory-apache-log4j-zero-day-vulnerability .
INC-201713 · Issue 700221
Resolved SSO logout error
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.5
After configuring prconfig/initialization/Urlencryption/default -> true and prconfig/initialization/SubmitObfuscatedURL/default -> required, logging in to any portal using SSO resulted in a 400 error when trying to log out. This has been resolved by adding a call to the encryption Rule-Utility-Function while calling logoff activity from 'pzSingleLogoutServiceRedirectV2'.
INC-202702 · Issue 713726
Ruleset creation process updated to maintain thread scope
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.5
On creating a ruleset, the system generated the error "There has been an issue. Please consult your system administrator." If browser cookies and site settings were cleared and the browser was relaunched before logging in and creating a ruleset, the issue did not occur. Investigation showed that the Application page was at the Requestor scope for some of the threads due to handling in the ruleset creation process that removed the Application page and recreated it in the default scope of the thread with the latest state. To resolve this, the process for deleting the Application page and recreating it on the Requestor page has been removed.
INC-212265 · Issue 714015
at+jwt header type support added
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.5
After upgrading from Pega 7 to Pega 8, using JWT validation in the REST service package with type "at+jwt" resulted in the JSON web token being rejected during signature verification with the error "header "typ" (type) "at+jwt" not allowed". Pega uses the third-party Nimbus jar to generate and verify JWT tokens, and this issue was traced to a difference in the versions of that jar: Pega 7.3 uses the nimbus-jose-jwt 5.1 version jar, while Pega 8.6+ uses the 8.20 jar version. Nimbus rejects at+jwt header types by default from the 8.0 jar version. To resolve this and improve backwards compatibility, at+jwt header type support has been added.
INC-216154 · Issue 718236
SMTPPort parameter will be passed to ForgotPasswordUtil
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.5
When a user triggered the "Trouble Signing in" function, the SentEmailNotification activity connection was trying to use port 25 even if the SMTP Port was configured as 587 in the Email Account instance. This was due to the SMTP Port not being passed to the SentEmailNotification activity, causing a fallback to port 25 for non-SSL connections. In order to ensure SendEmailNotification uses a specified port if configured, pySMTPPort will be passed to ForgotPasswordUtil.java.
INC-217461 · Issue 714310
Key ID made optional for JWT
Resolved in Pega Version 8.6.5
After update, Connect-REST services were failing with a Admin_Security_Token.Action error. This was traced to kID (key ID) being mandated following previous work done to address an issue. To resolve this and better support backwards compatibility, the kID has been made optional in the JWT header.