Bug ID 1297937: Protected Access is unable to wrap the window object of newly opened window's window object which is causing issues in newly opened window

Last Modified: Jun 28, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1, 16.1.5.2, 16.1.6

Opened: May 11, 2023

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Protected Access (PA) is unable to wrap the window object of the newly opened window's window object which is causing issues in newly opened window

Impact

Newly opened window has issues/errors

Conditions

This occurs for applications that open a new window.

Workaround

Here we return unpatched popup window's window object as a workaround for a simple popup pages and it might create issues in some applications where application code deals with popup window's window.location property Attach below customized iRule: when CLIENT_ACCEPTED { ACCESS::restrict_irule_events disable } when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [HTTP::path] ends_with "cache-fm-Modern.js" } { HTTP::respond 200 content [ifile get ModernCachefm] } }

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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