http: strictly forbid invalid characters from headers

PR-URL: nodejs-private/node-private#26
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <r@va.gg>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>

doc/api/http.markdown

@@ -649,8 +649,8 @@ response.addTrailers({'Content-MD5': '7895bf4b8828b55ceaf47747b4bca667'});
 response.end();
 ```
 
-Attempting to set a trailer field name that contains invalid characters will
-result in a [`TypeError`][] being thrown.
+Attempting to set a header field name or value that contains invalid characters
+will result in a [`TypeError`][] being thrown.
 
 ### response.end([data][, encoding][, callback])
 
@@ -721,8 +721,8 @@ or
 response.setHeader('Set-Cookie', ['type=ninja', 'language=javascript']);
 ```
 
-Attempting to set a header field name that contains invalid characters will
-result in a [`TypeError`][] being thrown.
+Attempting to set a header field name or value that contains invalid characters
+will result in a [`TypeError`][] being thrown.
 
 When headers have been set with [`response.setHeader()`][], they will be merged with
 any headers passed to [`response.writeHead()`][], with the headers passed to
@@ -836,8 +836,8 @@ response.writeHead(200, {
 This method must only be called once on a message and it must
 be called before [`response.end()`][] is called.
 
-If you call [`response.write()`][] or [`response.end()`][] before calling this, the
-implicit/mutable headers will be calculated and call this function for you.
+If you call [`response.write()`][] or [`response.end()`][] before calling this,
+the implicit/mutable headers will be calculated and call this function for you.
 
 When headers have been set with [`response.setHeader()`][], they will be merged with
 any headers passed to [`response.writeHead()`][], with the headers passed to
@@ -860,6 +860,9 @@ should be used to determine the number of bytes in a given encoding.
 And Node.js does not check whether Content-Length and the length of the body
 which has been transmitted are equal or not.
 
+Attempting to set a header field name or value that contains invalid characters
+will result in a [`TypeError`][] being thrown.
+
 ## Class: http.IncomingMessage
 
 An `IncomingMessage` object is created by [`http.Server`][] or

lib/_http_common.js

@@ -231,3 +231,20 @@ function checkIsHttpToken(val) {
  return typeof val === 'string' && token.test(val);
 }
 exports._checkIsHttpToken = checkIsHttpToken;
+
+/**
+ * True if val contains an invalid field-vchar
+ * field-value = *( field-content / obs-fold )
+ * field-content = field-vchar [ 1*( SP / HTAB ) field-vchar ]
+ * field-vchar = VCHAR / obs-text
+ **/
+function checkInvalidHeaderChar(val) {
+ val = '' + val;
+ for (var i = 0; i < val.length; i++) {
+ const ch = val.charCodeAt(i);
+ if (ch === 9) continue;
+ if (ch <= 31 || ch > 255 || ch === 127) return true;
+ }
+ return false;
+}
+exports._checkInvalidHeaderChar = checkInvalidHeaderChar;

lib/_http_outgoing.js

@@ -305,8 +305,10 @@ function storeHeader(self, state, field, value) {
  throw new TypeError(
  'Header name must be a valid HTTP Token ["' + field + '"]');
  }
- value = escapeHeaderValue(value);
- state.messageHeader += field + ': ' + value + CRLF;
+ if (common._checkInvalidHeaderChar(value) === true) {
+ throw new TypeError('The header content contains invalid characters');
+ }
+ state.messageHeader += field + ': ' + escapeHeaderValue(value) + CRLF;
 
  if (connectionExpression.test(field)) {
  state.sentConnectionHeader = true;
@@ -341,8 +343,10 @@ OutgoingMessage.prototype.setHeader = function(name, value) {
  if (value === undefined)
  throw new Error('"value" required in setHeader("' + name + '", value)');
  if (this._header)
- throw new Error('Can\'t set headers after they are sent');
-
+ throw new Error('Can\'t set headers after they are sent.');
+ if (common._checkInvalidHeaderChar(value) === true) {
+ throw new TypeError('The header content contains invalid characters');
+ }
  if (this._headers === null)
  this._headers = {};
 
@@ -515,6 +519,9 @@ OutgoingMessage.prototype.addTrailers = function(headers) {
  throw new TypeError(
  'Trailer name must be a valid HTTP Token ["' + field + '"]');
  }
+ if (common._checkInvalidHeaderChar(value) === true) {
+ throw new TypeError('The header content contains invalid characters');
+ }
  this._trailer += field + ': ' + escapeHeaderValue(value) + CRLF;
  }
 };

test/parallel/test-http-response-splitting.js

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const common = require('../common');
+const http = require('http');
+const net = require('net');
+const url = require('url');
+const assert = require('assert');
+
+// Response splitting example, credit: Amit Klein, Safebreach
+const str = '/welcome?lang=bar%c4%8d%c4%8aContent­Length:%200%c4%8d%c4%8a%c' +
+ '4%8d%c4%8aHTTP/1.1%20200%20OK%c4%8d%c4%8aContent­Length:%202' +
+ '0%c4%8d%c4%8aLast­Modified:%20Mon,%2027%20Oct%202003%2014:50:18' +
+ '%20GMT%c4%8d%c4%8aContent­Type:%20text/html%c4%8d%c4%8a%c4%8' +
+ 'd%c4%8a%3chtml%3eGotcha!%3c/html%3e';
+
+// Response splitting example, credit: Сковорода Никита Андреевич (@ChALkeR)
+const x = 'fooഊSet-Cookie: foo=barഊഊ<script>alert("Hi!")</script>';
+const y = 'foo⠊Set-Cookie: foo=bar';
+
+var count = 0;
+
+const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
+ switch (count++) {
+ case 0:
+ const loc = url.parse(req.url, true).query.lang;
+ assert.throws(common.mustCall(() => {
+ res.writeHead(302, {Location: `/foo?lang=${loc}`});
+ }));
+ break;
+ case 1:
+ assert.throws(common.mustCall(() => {
+ res.writeHead(200, {'foo' : x});
+ }));
+ break;
+ case 2:
+ assert.throws(common.mustCall(() => {
+ res.writeHead(200, {'foo' : y});
+ }));
+ break;
+ default:
+ assert.fail(null, null, 'should not get to here.');
+ }
+ if (count === 3)
+ server.close();
+ res.end('ok');
+});
+server.listen(common.PORT, () => {
+ const end = 'HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n';
+ const client = net.connect({port: common.PORT}, () => {
+ client.write(`GET ${str} ${end}`);
+ client.write(`GET / ${end}`);
+ client.write(`GET / ${end}`);
+ client.end();
+ });
+});