SR-D55508 · Issue 521862
CSRF and Fingerprint token handling added to custom URL generation
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
An error screen appeared with the message "Server response error, no update data returned" while doing a check out and check in of the offer rule. This was traced to CSRF token validation: in this scenario, a custom URL was being framed and the corresponding request did not have a valid CSRF/ Fingerprint token, which can occur when there are custom AJAX/Non-ajax URLs constructed manually in the non-autogenerated/HTML streams. To address this, handling has been added for CSRF and fingerprint tokens as part of the custom URL generation.
SR-D56409 · Issue 520743
URL Encryption and Obfuscation made compatible with site-minder
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
Attempting to install a DL using Hfix Manager worked when not going through SSO but failed when using SSO. Investigation showed that this was due to the use of URLEncryption: URLEncryption uses a Pega-supplied base64 to encode the cipher text with MIME type encoding by default, which adds newline character after every 72 characters. This is not compatible with site-minder. which has policies to restrict newline characters in the URL. As a result, none of the encrypted requests were being processed. To resolve this, post-processing logic has been added to remove newline characters from encoded text. This change has also been applied top URLObfuscation.
SR-D62949 · Issue 527502
XSS protection added
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
The CrossScriptingFilter API has been applied to address a potential XSS issue related to stream rule parameters used in the request header.
SR-D63232 · Issue 524295
Support added for Authentication service rule attributes in embedded pages
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
SSO login was not working, giving the error "Unable to process the SAML WebSSO request : No value specified for Attribute in SAML assertion". Investigation showed the Authentication service rule could only map attributes that are on the top level page and did not consider embedded page values. To resolve this, tools.getProperty will be used to fetch the property reference value instead of find Page and getString.
SR-D63727 · Issue 531726
Authorization header base 64 format error recategorized as debug logging
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
Numerous messages were generated indicating that the Authorization Header format was invalid when using the format " : " (Base64 Og==) . As this is the default behavior for a particular class of proxy servers, the error statement has been updated to be logged as a debug statement and will be visible only when that logging is enabled.
SR-D71378 · Issue 533282
Authorization header base 64 format error recategorized as debug logging
Resolved in Pega Version 8.4
Numerous messages were generated indicating that the Authorization Header format was invalid when using the format " : " (Base64 Og==) . As this is the default behavior for a particular class of proxy servers, the error statement has been updated to be logged as a debug statement and will be visible only when that logging is enabled.
SR-D24900 · Issue 503873
Security update for RequestMap error logging
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
In HttpAPI, the RequestMap contains Cookie information. In error conditions, this map gets logged. An update has been made to ensure that the Cookie value is not logged if there is an error.
SR-D27644 · Issue 497611
Uploaded attachments will receive a unique name to prevent overwriting
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
An issue with an incorrect file being attached to a work object was traced to overlapping processes. When files are uploaded, they are first saved to common HDD directory and then read into memory and deleted from the HDD area. Files will overwrite other file carrying the same name, which is a problem if the first file is not completely uploaded and is waiting in the common directory and some other file with the same name is uploaded on top of it. To resolve this, an update has been made to ensure file names are appended with a unique identifier to distinguish between files carrying the same names and keep them from overwriting each other.
SR-D28184 · Issue 497165
Verbose debug logging removed from LockUtils
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
Verbose debug logging that had been added to the "LockUtils" class to print when the lock was acquired or released and include the associated stacktrace has now been removed as it interfered with diagnosing locking issues when threads were getting blocked.
SR-D28538 · Issue 502056
Corrected requestor status flag for direct map
Resolved in Pega Version 8.3.1
Numerous "Unable to create requestor" alerts were logged. This was traced to an error in HttpAPI where after retrieving the requestor from the internal requestor map directly, the requestor creation status flag was not set properly. This caused last action to post that alert instead of the correct notice of "existing requestor retrieved". This has been resolved so the flag reflects the correct status.