Its worth mentioning this issue is related to the following from July:

https://groups.google.com/a/apereo.org/forum/#!searchin/cas-user/RequestId|sort:date/cas-user/tm8aQrzKDbc/e4I2dkgVCQAJ
https://groups.google.com/a/apereo.org/forum/#!searchin/cas-user/RequestId|sort:date/cas-user/iQSoUno6Bms/zrQf5Ex-CAAJ

I'd like to reiterate that patching the client is not a fix here, the core 
of 5.3 needs to be patched to gracefully accept a null RequestID as all 
previous versions of CAS have.

On Monday, August 27, 2018 at 3:25:32 PM UTC-4, Josh G wrote:
>
>
> CAS 5.3.x introduces a breaking change to how RequestIDs are handled when 
> validating SAML Services.
>
> *In 5.2.x (and all previous version of CAS), if the RequestID is not 
> present, it will gracefully fail by returning a null value:*
>
>
> https://github.com/apereo/cas/blob/5.2.x/support/cas-server-support-saml/src/main/java/org/apereo/cas/support/saml/authentication/principal/SamlServiceFactory.java
>
>
>
>
> requestId = extractRequestId(requestBody);
>
> /**
>  * Extract request id from the body.
>  *
>  * @param requestBody the request body
>  * @return the string
>  */
> private static String extractRequestId(final String requestBody) {
>     if (!requestBody.contains("RequestID")) {
>         LOGGER.debug("Request body does not contain a request id");
>         return null;
>     }
>
>     try {
>         final int position = requestBody.indexOf("RequestID=\"") + 
> CONST_REQUEST_ID_LENGTH;
>         final int nextPosition = requestBody.indexOf('"', position);
>
>         return requestBody.substring(position, nextPosition);
>     } catch (final Exception e) {
>         LOGGER.debug("Exception parsing RequestID from request.", e);
>         return null;
>     }
> }
>      
>
>
> *In 5.3.x, if the RequestID is not present it will throw a 
> NullPointerException:*
>
>
> https://github.com/apereo/cas/blob/5.3.x/support/cas-server-support-saml/src/main/java/org/apereo/cas/support/saml/authentication/principal/SamlServiceFactory.java#L63
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *@NonNullfinal Attribute requestIdAttribute = 
> requestChild.getAttribute("RequestID"); requestId = 
> requestIdAttribute.getValue();This change will break all versions of 
> apereo/mod_auth_cas (See: https://github.com/apereo/mod_auth_cas/issues/148 
> <https://github.com/apereo/mod_auth_cas/issues/148>) along with any other 
> client that does not properly implement support for the RequestID 
> parameter.*
>
> This change should be reverted (this is as simple as removing the 
> @NonNull Lombok annotation so the request will failback to a null 
> response). Breaking every install of mod_auth_cas along with other legacy 
> clients cannot be considered acceptable.
>

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