INC-194865 · Issue 695620
Corrected report definition save-as-image option
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
Attempting to save a report definition as an image resulted in an access denied error stating "Browser fingerprint validation failed : A request was received with an invalid or missing browser fingerprint. The request was denied", and the user session was closed. The security SECU0017 alert is generated when a request is sent to a Pega application and the browser fingerprint is either missing or does not match the expected value. The system tries to check the type of request for every requestor ID and fetch the CSRF token, but in this case it was not matching with the token present on the requestor thread. This has been resolved by adding scripts to send the hidden input value needed.
INC-198571 · Issue 708634
SSO update
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
In order to ensure shared SSO direct links are used as intended, an update has been made which will explicitly require re-authentication for each use of a direct link.
INC-202702 · Issue 713725
Ruleset creation process updated to maintain thread scope
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
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-210168 · Issue 732069
Added handling for Node Level Data Pages not loading automatically
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
After update, the MQ listeners were not starting. This was traced to the Global Resource Setting references in the listener rules that utilize data page lookups; MQ listeners started as expected when they were hard-coded with the values present on the data page. Investigation showed this was caused by the activity running in an unauthenticated context, and has been resolved by allowing the app requestor to skip authentication.
INC-211426 · Issue 706059
UI and code changes to support Client Assertion in Open ID Connect
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
In order to support private_key_jwt, an enhancement has been added which will pass the “Client ID” and “Client assertion” (in the form of a signed JWT) as part of the authorization code grant flow for an IDP-initiated SSO. The Authorization Server will then authenticate Pega (the client) to verify the signature and payload of assertion by retrieving the public key via Pega’s JWKS endpoint.
INC-212265 · Issue 714014
at+jwt header type support added
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
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-215343 · Issue 711143
Security updates
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
Security updates have been made relating to rulesets using allow lists, checks for Java code injections, SAML-based SSO code, and supporting SFTP as part of the validation in the pxValidateURL rule.
INC-216053 · Issue 716445
UI and code changes to support Client Assertion in Open ID Connect
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
In order to support private_key_jwt, an enhancement has been added which will pass the “Client ID” and “Client assertion” (in the form of a signed JWT) as part of the authorization code grant flow for an IDP-initiated SSO. The Authorization Server will then authenticate Pega (the client) to verify the signature and payload of assertion by retrieving the public key via Pega’s JWKS endpoint.
INC-216154 · Issue 718234
SMTPPort parameter will be passed to ForgotPasswordUtil
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
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 714309
Key ID made optional for JWT
Resolved in Pega Version 8.8
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.