INC-142145 · Issue 594915
Resolved 403 error for refresh of incognito window with CSRF
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
Opening the simpleurl in a fresh incognito window opened the work object in a standard thread, but on refresh of the window a 403 error appeared and the screen went blank. This was a missed use case for the recently-added CSRF validation for non-ajax get requests which are redirected post requests. The CSRF token was being validated if pzPostData was in the request, but once the original request was complete the request map was cleared and the pzCtkn value in the request map was empty, resulting in the 403 error. To resolve this, the system will skip CSRF validation for a refresh scenario where the post data request map is empty after the original request, and validation has been added for the blank pyActivity in the request.
INC-144591 · Issue 601609
Oauth and beanutils jars upgraded
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
The third party Oauth2 jars and commons-beanutils jar have been updated to the latest versions.
INC-144597 · Issue 598305
Updated handling for MT query of pr_data_admin table
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
When using a multi-tenant environment with Oracle, as the number of users in the environment increased, the number of queries of the pr_data_admin table "WHERE pyEnableAuthService" increased exponentially and causes system slowness. This was traced to missed handling for the @ character in the authentication service cache while requesting, and has been resolved by updating authservicecache.java.
INC-145033 · Issue 599480
ForgotPassword responses made consistent
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
To prevent possible exposure of valid usernames, the ForgotPassword logic has been updated so that it will show the same messages and set of screens to both valid and invalid users if a lost password request is made.
INC-145694 · Issue 601294
Property check handling updated for Ajax requestor
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
SECU0001 alerts were seen when submitting a case in the interaction portal. Logging indicated the errors were related to the 'pxRequestor.pyLatitude' and 'pxRequestor.pyLongitude' properties which are included in an Ajax request when they exist in the DOM and the 'pyGeolocationTrackingIsEnabled' when rule is true. The error was traced to a condition where a new thread request results in an unexpected property check that encounters a clipboard which doesn't have any pages created for that thread. To resolve this, the 'pxRequestor.pyLatitude' and 'pxRequestor.pyLongitude' properties have been added to an allow list to handle the unexpected properties check.
INC-146434 · Issue 602738
Accessibility added to Security Event Configuration headers
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
Labels for the headers in the Security Event Configuration screen have been converted to dynamic layout headers so they will be detected by JAWS screen reader.
INC-146921 · Issue 601635
Cross-site scripting update for Dev Studio
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
Cross Site Scripting (Cross-site scripting) protections have been added to Developer Studio.
INC-151253 · Issue 607624
Hash comparisons adjusted for upgraded sites
Resolved in Pega Version 8.5.2
Existing Pega Diagnostic Cloud SSO URLs were not working after upgrade. This was traced to the previous tenant hash (or AG hash) having padding characters like ‘(’ which are no longer used in higher versions. This caused the tenant hash comparison during the SAML login flow to fail. To resolve this, the system will not compare an incoming tenant hash (in relay state) with a current platform tenant hash, but instead will rely on the “/!” pattern to identify the tenant hash in the relay state.