Exception: org/slf4j/LoggerFactory

Products

• CA Single Sign On Federation (SiteMinder)

Issue/Introduction

Getting this below exception for Federation transaction failing with signature verification.. The same cert is working in 12.8.2 and with a parallel upgrade to 12.8.5 and when pointing the SPS to newer PS(12.8.5) it is failing with below error:

 

[08/16/2022][16:15:46][16:15:46.392][][][][][][4260][140380402087680][55c1698e-3b836512-acc668ce-cdb35ee2-113235b5-ac][][][][][][][][][SignatureProcessor.java][verifyXML][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][Primary certificate to verify signature: alias: "XXX XXX XXX"][][][][][][][][][]
[08/16/2022][16:15:46][16:15:46.392][][][][][][4260][140380402087680][55c1698e-3b836512-acc668ce-cdb35ee2-113235b5-ac][][][][][][][][][SignatureProcessor.java][verifyXML][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][Signature verification with primary certificate failed with message: Error in DSigVerifier - Exception while creating SMKeyDatabase: Exception occurred during creation of the XMLDocumentOps instance.  Exception:  org/slf4j/LoggerFactory
com.netegrity.smkeydatabase.api.XMLDocumentOpsException: Exception occurred during creation of the XMLDocumentOps instance.  Exception:  org/slf4j/LoggerFactory
at com.netegrity.smkeydatabase.api.XMLDocumentOpsFactory.getXMLDocumentOpsInstance(XMLDocumentOpsFactory.java:95)
at com.netegrity.SAML2Security.DSigVerifier.initialize(Unknown Source)
at com.netegrity.SAML2Security.DSigVerifier.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at com.netegrity.SAML2Security.SignatureProcessor.verifyXMLWithAlias(Unknown Source)
at com.netegrity.SAML2Security.SignatureProcessor.verifyXML(Unknown Source)
at com.netegrity.SAML2Security.SignatureProcessor.verifyXML(Unknown Source)
at com.netegrity.ps.auth.saml.Saml2Validator.verifyXML(Unknown Source)
at com.netegrity.ps.auth.saml.Saml2Validator.verifySignature(Unknown Source)
at com.netegrity.ps.auth.saml.Saml2Validator.smAuthenticate(Unknown Source)
at com.netegrity.ps.auth.saml.SamlValidator.smAuthenticate(Unknown Source)
][][][][][][][][][]

Environment

Policy Server: 12.8.5

Resolution

Make sure and check the correct slf4j-api-x.x.xx.jar in the folder "<Siteminder installer>/bin/thirdparty" and in your JVMOptions.txt.