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smallwebwaf/internal/waf/headerlimits.go
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waf: the header limits are the first check (closes #311)
A request over 50 cookies or 100 header fields is now refused by the first
check after SWW_ALLOW_NETS. It causes no lookup, no query to RouteWatch, a DNS
blocklist or AbuseIPDB, no rule file match and no Core Rule Set. The rate
limits no longer count it, and a banned or denied client gets 431 for it. It
makes no ban, makes no ban permanent and is not counted in a ban's notes. In
observe mode no lookup is made for it. Requests within the limits go through
the same checks in the same order.

Model: opus-5-5
2026-11-11 02:14:23 +00:00

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package waf
// 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.
// Real clients never reach them.
const (
maxCookies = 50
maxHeaderFields = 100
)
// headerLimits refuses a request with more than maxHeaderFields header fields
// or more than maxCookies cookies, 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.ActionRequestHeaderTooLarge,
figures: map[string]any{
"fields": fields, "fields_limit": maxHeaderFields,
"cookies": cookies, "cookies_limit": 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
}