package servewaf // The heuristic header_limits. It reads no setting: its limits are fixed. import ( "context" "strings" "time" "sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/requestlog" ) // The header limits: the most cookies and header fields a request may have // when the checks reach the Core Rule Set. Real clients never reach them. const ( maxCookies = 50 maxHeaderFields = 100 ) // headerLimits refuses a request over the header limits, with 431. Its figures // are the request's header fields and cookies, and the limit of each. type headerLimits struct{} func (headerLimits) name() string { return "header_limits" } func (headerLimits) check(_ context.Context, rq *request, _ time.Time) *verdict { fields, cookies := rq.headerCounts() if fields <= maxHeaderFields && cookies <= maxCookies { return nil } return &verdict{ action: requestlog.ActionTooLarge, figures: map[string]any{ "fields": fields, "fields_limit": maxHeaderFields, "cookies": cookies, "cookies_limit": maxCookies, }, } } // overHeaderLimits reports whether the request is over the header limits: it // has more than maxHeaderFields fields or more than maxCookies cookies, as // headerCounts counts them. func (rq *request) overHeaderLimits() bool { fields, cookies := rq.headerCounts() return fields > maxHeaderFields || cookies > maxCookies } // headerCounts returns the request's header fields, each value of a header sent // twice being one, and its cookies, each part of a Cookie header between // semicolons being one unless it is empty or only spaces and tabs. The Core // Rule Set runs each of its rules on each cookie, so that thousands of small // cookies keep it busy for over a second. It trims only spaces and control // characters, of which a header value can hold only tabs, so a part of Unicode // spaces is a cookie to it. func (rq *request) headerCounts() (int, int) { fields, cookies := 0, 0 for _, values := range rq.in.Header { fields += len(values) } for _, value := range rq.in.Header.Values("Cookie") { for part := range strings.SplitSeq(value, ";") { if strings.Trim(part, " \t") != "" { cookies++ } } } return fields, cookies }