File upload fails when PicketLink SSO is enabled in JBoss EAP 7

Solution Verified - Updated 14 Jun 2024

Environment

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP)
- 7.1.2 and later
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Picketlink as SAML Service Provider (SP)
File Upload

Issue

File Upload Fails with IllegalStateException reported in the logs:

  java.lang.IllegalStateException: UT000017: Form value is a file, use getFileItem() instead
      at io.undertow.server.handlers.form.FormData$FormValueImpl.getValue(FormData.java:304) ~[undertow-core-2.0.20.Final-redhat-00001.jar!/:2.0.20.Final-redhat-00001]
      at org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.wildfly.sp.SPFormAuthenticationRequestWrapper.getParameter(SPFormAuthenticationRequestWrapper.java:73) ~[picketlink-wildfly8-2.5.5.SP12-redhat-00005.jar!/:2.5.5.SP12-redhat-00005]
  ...

File upload (multipart) fails with sizes around or over 20Kb

Resolution

This issue is resolved in EAP 7.2.7+, 7.3.1+, and 7.4.0+.

Notes:
Several issues have been identified that are all fixed in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 Update 7 (EAP 7.2.7) and EAP 7.3 Update 1 (EAP 7.3.1). Refer to the Root Cause section for the related bug fixes.

Root Cause

Related bugs for file upload issues include:

EAP 7.2

This content is not included.JBEAP-18460 -- fixed in EAP 7.2.7
This content is not included.JBEAP-18122 -- fixed in EAP 7.2.7
This content is not included.JBEAP-17804 -- fixed in EAP 7.2.7 (as a duplicate of This content is not included.JBEAP-18122 )
This content is not included.JBEAP-17829 -- fixed in EAP 7.2.6
This content is not included.JBEAP-17467 -- fixed in EAP 7.2.5
This content is not included.JBEAP-17328 -- fixed in EAP 7.2.4
This content is not included.JBEAP-16188 -- fixed in EAP 7.2.1

EAP 7.3

This content is not included.JBEAP-18505 -- fixed in EAP 7.3.1
This content is not included.JBEAP-18203 -- fixed in EAP 7.3.1
This content is not included.JBEAP-18290 -- fixed in EAP 7.3.1

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