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Ann: forums webservices disabled

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
December 23, 2009
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Adobe announced the following:

A security vulnerability was identified in one of the web service calls. We will be coordinating a patch to address this issue in January once everyone is back from the holiday break. As an interim measure, we will be disabling web services in order to prevent anyone from taking advantage of this security vulnerability. This change goes into effect today shortly after 10pm Pacific time.

This today 10 PM Pacific time is approximately 12 hours ago. As of then all attempts to access the webservices will result in a 403 error for the REST services and a 404 for the SOAP services.

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Jochem van DietenAuthor

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The webservices have been enabled again.

Harbs.

Legend

Jochem,

I just tried connecting with your client, and I can't connect. Is it

supposed to be working now?

Harbs

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Jochem van DietenAuthor

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Harbs. wrote on 1/13/2010 10:24 PM:

I just tried connecting with your client, and I can't connect. Is it
supposed to be working now?

I am still in the process of fixing everything that broke due to the

undocumented changes to the APIs. I have the logins fixed in my own

build, but there is still the issue of the inline images not working.

Soon.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

What Hunt said. I still have no clue what a webservice is; until somewhere into this thread I thought it was a browser.

Maybe Dense & Denser will be one of the next film titles.

Harbs.

Legend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service

In plain English: It's the API which allows accessing the forums

through an external application.

Harbs

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Jochem van DietenAuthor

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This affects those who use the webservices to access these forums. Not RSS, not email, not the web interface, just the webservices.

Harbs.

Legend

In other words: Jochem's AIR app will not work until further

notice...

Harbs

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Jochem van DietenAuthor

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Harbs. wrote:
In other words: Jochem's AIR app will not work until further
notice...

Unless Adobe is doing something internally with the webservices that is probably the biggest victim. There were 2 other people playing around with the webservices, but I don't know how far they got so it might even be the only victim. (At least until Flash Player 10.1 for Android / Windows Mobile is released.)

It is really quite unfortunate that all he security vulnerabilities I find only affect the webservices. Upgrades would happen much more frequently if if they affected the web interface instead

Phillip M Jones

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Jochem:

What does this represent for a lowly user. Does this affects the forums. or is it related to the LiveCycle Sever Acrobat uses to serve FDF info for acroabt Windows PC Users?