Trouble with ESAPI after 5.3.9.141

west_coast · July 20, 2022, 11:45pm

Hi there,

I hope this is the right place for it. If it is the wrong place, sorry! I’ve updated from 5.3.8.206 to 5.3.9.141 via jar file and run into errors relating to ESAPI. I’ll add details below. I have similar issues with the PDF and compress extensions, but I will post those separately once I know the desired format / location

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OS: Windows 2012 R2
Java Version: 11.0.3 (AdoptOpenJDK)
Tomcat Version: 9.0.50
Lucee Version: 5.3.9.141

ESAPI extension: 2.2.4.7

Relevant code in system:

also

Error: #EncodeForHTML(oException.message)#

At 5.3.8.260, it worked ok

Update process:

Stop Lucee service
Remove old .jar file from lib folder
Add in 5.3.9.141 jar file
Start Lucee

Error in our application:

Application Error, Error: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException Encoder class (org.owasp.esapi.reference.DefaultEncoder) CTOR threw exception., Detail: , Template: 139 in /Installer/Forms/search_submit.cfm, Template: 729 in /Installer/Application.cfc

Error in application onError handler, Error: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException Encoder class (org.owasp.esapi.reference.DefaultEncoder) CTOR threw exception., Detail: , Template: 42 in /Installer/Includes/error_handling.cfm, Template: 950 in /Installer/Application.cfc

Workaround I tried:

Deleted file org.lucee.esapi-2.2.3.10001L.jar from C:\lucee\tomcat\lucee-server\bundles
Restarted Lucee

At that point, it worked ok for a while. However, the next day, the problem returned.

Note: Updating to Lucee 5.3.10.28-SNAPSHOT did not help with this issue.

Zackster · July 21, 2022, 5:00am

Hi @west_coast thanks for posting a nice detailed bug report about your problem, this is definitely the right place.

(Side note, we have been trying to ask everyone to post here before creating tickets, but not everyone seems to pays attention to the banner in jira)

I have also been seeing the CTOR error sporadically as well, often when I’m viewing debug logs via the lucee admin

We have an open ticket about this problem [LDEV-2293] - Lucee

west_coast · July 21, 2022, 4:10pm

Thank you, I saw that banner! (it worked at least once, eh?)

I’m having similar issues with the compress and the pdf extension. Should I make separate posts here for those?

Zackster · July 21, 2022, 8:59pm

have a look in JIRA first

west_coast · October 26, 2022, 4:23pm

Hello. Coming back to this after a while. We found a process that worked for us consistently.

After updating to the newest version of Lucee (5.3.9.160 at the time we did the testing), we uninstalled the ESAPI extension from the web interface.

Then, from the location lucee\tomcat\lucee-server\bundles, we deleted the file esapi-extension-2-1-0-17-SNAPSHOT.jar.

Finally, we installed version 2.2.0.1 through the web interface. That has held up pretty well.

taivo · October 28, 2022, 12:19am

Hi,
When you say “uninstalled from the web interface”, do you mean the following? (Because that’s the page I can’t get to load) See image:

Stuck here, happening on WIndows Server 2012 instances as well as dev.

west_coast · November 2, 2022, 4:39am

Hi @taivo . Yes, that is the interface we used.

Reading the error on your screenshot, it looks like the ESAPI extension version and Lucee version might be incompatible. If you update your Lucee to at least the version mentioned (5.3.x), does it resolve that problem?