Crowd XSRF check failed

Josh Rea June 5, 2017

How does one troubleshoot an "XSRF check failed" error when testing an LDAP connection from the Crowd web app to a Microsoft Active Directory server? I am using Crowd 2.11.0, and we have recently updated the entire company's IP scheme. I have updated all of the hard-coded IPs on the server. It's Ubuntu 16.04.2, Nginx, Postgresql, with Node and Java. I have searched the Atlassian documentation on Crowd, but there is nothing there regarding this error.

Thanks in advance,

Josh

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Josh Rea June 6, 2017

I had to add a proxyName, proxyPort, and scheme configurations into the crowd server.xml file, due to it being ran behind Nginx. I hope that helps anyone who comes across this same issue.

-Josh

neuralabs October 15, 2018

Thanks Josh - yes sorted our issues as well (reverse proxying Crowd 3.3.0 through apache).

Ann's response below is the doc I followed: Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection changes in Atlassian REST

proxyName, proxyPort, and scheme config values should be added to the Connector tag, restart crowd to make active

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Hao Doan July 17, 2019

For those that needs more detail steps.

  1. Shutdown Crowd.
  2. Open the server.xml file, my path /opt/atlassian/crowd/apache-tomcat/conf.
  3. Add your proxyname, proxyport, and scheme after URIEncoding="UTF-8" line.

         Example: scheme="https" proxyName="yoursub.yourdomain.com" proxyPort="443"

      4. Save the file and start Crowd.

Hope this help!

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Yogesh Mude
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January 27, 2021

Hello all,

Getting the same issue while sending a request to Crowd. i checked in the server.xml file and proxy name, port and scheme have configured, but still getting the below error.

2021-01-27 11:20:43,413 http-nio-8095-exec-11 WARN [common.security.jersey.XsrfResourceFilter] XSRF checks failed for request:

 

@Josh Rea , what do you mean to update the connecting LDAP URL in my Crowd administration console? can you pls explain little bit.

Thanks.

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June 5, 2017

Josh, the documentation applies to the whole Atlassian suite so it's not in the Crowd docs, I am sorry you searched in vain. The conditions that cause XSRF errors are described in:

Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection changes in Atlassian REST

Josh Rea June 5, 2017

Thanks Ann!

So it's my understanding that XSRF errors are simply URL mis-matches, therefore, I would simply need to update the connecting LDAP URL in my Crowd administration console?

-Josh

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