Bug ID 431834: Authentication with Oracle Access Manager API can throw an exception while obtaining redirect URL

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1

Fixed In:
11.5.0, 11.4.1 HF2, 11.4.0 HF6, 11.3.0 HF9, 11.2.1 HF10

Opened: Sep 25, 2013

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K15686

Symptoms

Authentication with Oracle Access Manager API can throw an exception while obtaining redirect URL. This is an intermittent issue.

Impact

Without the fix, the unhandled exception cause EAM core and service outage. With fix, the exception is handled gracefully and return an eror page with error message to end user. The process will not core.

Conditions

It could be triggered when ASDK fails to return the URL string for redirection or if it returns null string.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

When using the Oracle ASDK API to obtain the Redirect URL during the authentication process, APM handles exceptions gracefully.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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