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smallwebwaf/internal/discriminator/headerlimits.go
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discriminator: the header limits are the first check (closes #311)
A request over 50 cookies or 100 header fields is now refused before any
other check. 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. 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 00:26:14 +00:00

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package discriminator
// 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
}