RememberMe Token validation failing

Products

• SITEMINDER
• CA Single Sign On Federation (SiteMinder)

Issue/Introduction

When running a Policy Server, when this one handles the generated token, it reports an error:

  [2967595/140285788083968][Thu Oct 05 2023 09:59:10.757][SmAuthSamlJNI.cpp:532][ERROR][sm-FedServer-00520]
  Error caught JNI Exception: SamlValidator (Pass 1):
  Caught unknown exception or error:
  java.lang.ClassCastException:
  javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement cannot be cast to com.netegrity.SAML2Gen.SubjectConfirmationType - Stacktrace:
  java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement cannot be cast to com.netegrity.SAML2Gen.SubjectConfirmationType
  
          at com.netegrity.ps.auth.saml.Saml2ValidatorTxm.checkSubjectConfirmation(Saml2ValidatorTxm.java:2478)
          at com.netegrity.ps.auth.saml.Saml2ValidatorTxm.checkAssertion(Saml2ValidatorTxm.java:1422)
          at com.netegrity.ps.auth.saml.Saml2ValidatorTxm.smAuthenticate(Saml2ValidatorTxm.java:628)
          at com.netegrity.ps.auth.saml.SamlValidator.smAuthenticate(Unknown Source)

 

Resolution

Upgrade the Policy Server to version 12.8SP9 when this one will be available to benefit from fix DE579949.