CorsFilter fails to start after updating Tomcat
Issue
- After patching our Tomcat installation, we see the following start up errors with the CorsFilter:
16-Apr-2019 12:05:15.480 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart Exception starting filter CorsFilter
javax.servlet.ServletException: It is not allowed to configure supportsCredentials=[true] when allowedOrigins=[*]
at org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter.parseAndStore(CorsFilter.java:800)
at org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter.init(CorsFilter.java:211)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.initFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:285)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:266)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:108)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4697)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5337)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:147)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:701)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1089)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1831)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
16-Apr-2019 12:05:15.481 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal One or more Filters failed to start. Full details will be found in the appropriate container log file
16-Apr-2019 12:05:15.481 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal Context [/app] startup failed due to previous errors
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS) 3.1.4+
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- Tomcat 7.0.76-10
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