Bug ID 559402: Client initiated form based SSO fails when username and password not replaced correctly while posting the form

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 11.6.2

Opened: Nov 21, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Client initiated form based SSO fails when the username and password are not replaced correctly in post request. The reason for this is that client initiated form based SSO and browser urlencode special character in username/password differently. and the case sensitive comparison fails to find match between both these urlencoded values. So sso module adds the username password to the token again. This results in password attribute/value pair appears twice with both the f5-sso-token and the real password and so it fails

Impact

SSO fails with password attribute/value pair appears twice with both the f5-sso-token and the real password in the token and so it fails

Conditions

When the password contains special charaters like [ or ]

Workaround

No workaround

Fix Information

Not fixed yet.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips