Restrict connection-specific headers in HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

As per RFC 9113 and RFC 9114, any message containing such headers MUST be
treated as malformed.

As per RFC 9110, Section 7.6.1, the following headers are considered
connection-specific:

- Connection
- Proxy-Connection
- Keep-Alive
- TE
- Transfer-Encoding
- Upgrade

The only exception is the TE header field, which MAY be present in a
request header, but it MUST NOT contain any value other than "trailers".
This commit is contained in:
Roman Arutyunyan
2026-04-08 17:19:24 +04:00
committed by Roman Arutyunyan
parent 00979ba9d8
commit d3a76322cf
3 changed files with 98 additions and 0 deletions
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@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ static ngx_int_t ngx_http_process_host(ngx_http_request_t *r,
ngx_table_elt_t *h, ngx_uint_t offset);
static ngx_int_t ngx_http_process_connection(ngx_http_request_t *r,
ngx_table_elt_t *h, ngx_uint_t offset);
static ngx_int_t ngx_http_process_proxy_connection(ngx_http_request_t *r,
ngx_table_elt_t *h, ngx_uint_t offset);
static ngx_int_t ngx_http_process_user_agent(ngx_http_request_t *r,
ngx_table_elt_t *h, ngx_uint_t offset);
@@ -82,6 +84,9 @@ ngx_http_header_t ngx_http_headers_in[] = {
{ ngx_string("Connection"), offsetof(ngx_http_headers_in_t, connection),
ngx_http_process_connection },
{ ngx_string("Proxy-Connection"), 0,
ngx_http_process_proxy_connection },
{ ngx_string("If-Modified-Since"),
offsetof(ngx_http_headers_in_t, if_modified_since),
ngx_http_process_unique_header_line },
@@ -1928,6 +1933,21 @@ ngx_http_process_connection(ngx_http_request_t *r, ngx_table_elt_t *h,
}
static ngx_int_t
ngx_http_process_proxy_connection(ngx_http_request_t *r, ngx_table_elt_t *h,
ngx_uint_t offset)
{
if (r->http_version >= NGX_HTTP_VERSION_20) {
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, r->connection->log, 0,
"client sent \"Proxy-Connection\" header");
ngx_http_finalize_request(r, NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
return NGX_ERROR;
}
return NGX_OK;
}
static ngx_int_t
ngx_http_process_user_agent(ngx_http_request_t *r, ngx_table_elt_t *h,
ngx_uint_t offset)
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@@ -3820,6 +3820,45 @@ ngx_http_v2_run_request(ngx_http_request_t *r)
r->http_state = NGX_HTTP_PROCESS_REQUEST_STATE;
if (r->headers_in.connection) {
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, fc->log, 0,
"client sent \"Connection\" header");
ngx_http_finalize_request(r, NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
goto failed;
}
if (r->headers_in.keep_alive) {
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, fc->log, 0,
"client sent \"Keep-Alive\" header");
ngx_http_finalize_request(r, NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
goto failed;
}
if (r->headers_in.transfer_encoding) {
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, fc->log, 0,
"client sent \"Transfer-Encoding\" header");
ngx_http_finalize_request(r, NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
goto failed;
}
if (r->headers_in.upgrade) {
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, fc->log, 0,
"client sent \"Upgrade\" header");
ngx_http_finalize_request(r, NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
goto failed;
}
if (r->headers_in.te
&& (r->headers_in.te->value.len != 8
|| ngx_strncasecmp(r->headers_in.te->value.data,
(u_char *) "trailers", 8) != 0))
{
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, fc->log, 0,
"client sent invalid \"TE\" header");
ngx_http_finalize_request(r, NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
goto failed;
}
if (r->headers_in.server.len == 0) {
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, fc->log, 0,
"client sent neither \":authority\" nor \"Host\" header");
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@@ -1021,6 +1021,45 @@ ngx_http_v3_process_request_header(ngx_http_request_t *r)
c = r->connection;
if (r->headers_in.connection) {
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, c->log, 0,
"client sent \"Connection\" header");
ngx_http_finalize_request(r, NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
return NGX_ERROR;
}
if (r->headers_in.keep_alive) {
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, c->log, 0,
"client sent \"Keep-Alive\" header");
ngx_http_finalize_request(r, NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
return NGX_ERROR;
}
if (r->headers_in.transfer_encoding) {
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, c->log, 0,
"client sent \"Transfer-Encoding\" header");
ngx_http_finalize_request(r, NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
return NGX_ERROR;
}
if (r->headers_in.upgrade) {
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, c->log, 0,
"client sent \"Upgrade\" header");
ngx_http_finalize_request(r, NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
return NGX_ERROR;
}
if (r->headers_in.te
&& (r->headers_in.te->value.len != 8
|| ngx_strncasecmp(r->headers_in.te->value.data,
(u_char *) "trailers", 8) != 0))
{
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, c->log, 0,
"client sent invalid \"TE\" header");
ngx_http_finalize_request(r, NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
return NGX_ERROR;
}
if (ngx_http_v3_init_pseudo_headers(r) != NGX_OK) {
return NGX_ERROR;
}