Apache Commons Text vulnerability (commons-text-1.9.jar)

Applies to • Documentum xCP 22.2 • Documentum xCP Designer 22.2 Summary Are Documentum xCP components affected by CVE-2022-42889 the commons-text library vulnerability? Resolution Documentum XCP 22.2 is the first version of the platform that is shipped with the Apache commons-text java library.   This library is focused on algorithms for working with strings that developers may want…

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Avoiding Single Quotes in Usernames: Lessons for DQL Queries

Here is the error: Caused by: com.documentum.fc.common.DfException: [DM_QUERY_E_SYNTAX]error: “A Parser Error (syntax error) has occurred in the vicinity of: select distinct(object_name) from dms_type_permissions where delete_permission = true and role_name in ( select distinct(group_name) from dm_group where any i_all_users_names =’John D’Aguiar” When creating usernames, especially in systems that rely on query languages like Documentum Query Language…

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Deploying xCP Application on tcServer

Users who may attempt to configure this may run into issues when using more than one application server. This additional information is for the TC Server. Resolution In order to setup the clustering on TC Server, the notes in the Whitepaper should be carried out with the additional information as follows:             <Cluster className=”org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster”              channelSendOptions=”8″>         …

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Renew OTDS certificate

Manually renew certificate: open the url: https://otds_app_host-app02/otdsws/rest/systemconfig/certificate_content and make a single line, and paste to the file: otdsauth.properties located at D:\Documentum\tomcat9.0.85\webapps\OTDSAuthentication\WEB-INF\classes in Content Server. Below is the screenshot: Restart JMS. Verify – your application must work. In general, how long is a new OTDS certificate valid for? If you save the certificate to a file…

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Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 in dfc code

We are getting below error message while uploading documents in repo using the dfc 7.2 code. Exception in thread “main” java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/documentum/mailapp/operations/inbound/DfSeparateAttachments : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 Solution: Summary The easiest solution is to upgrade your runtime to Java 8 or higher, which should resolve the UnsupportedClassVersionError.

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