Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

ocpsoft/prettyfaces

              prettyfaces3 @ aeb88af
            

Fixes

CVEs

HIGH

Peak severity

Highlights

Authorization Bypass: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

core/src/main/java/com/ocpsoft/pretty/faces/beans/ParameterValidator.java: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.

1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Authorization Bypass: If JSF parameter validation fails and a 404 error is queued, the lifecycle processing and parameter injection must be aborted immediately. Failing to do so allows unauthorized parameter injection to proceed even when the request is technically invalid.

Input Validation: Path parameter validators were completely bypassed due to an invalid list-emptiness check against a List object. This allowed arbitrary, unvalidated input to reach backend EL coercion functions.