Add some security checks when handling a websocket connection.#155
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Add some security checks when handling a websocket connection.#155
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Check the Host and Origin headers for the incoming connection to verify the connection is allowed. The language is intended to allow the specific behaviour to be largely implementation defined, whilst recommending a default behaviour that prevents CSRF-type attacks (reject host headers that aren't an IP address or the server hostname, reject any requests with an origin header). Hopefully adding this text will ensure that implementations consider the security issues accepting a connection, even though it's not possible to give precise requirements that apply to all implementations.
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I made an equivalent HTTP PR at w3c/webdriver#1634 I think that one might have better wording, but I'll leave this as is until one or the other is reviewed to see what people prefer. |
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| Note: rejecting connections with unexpected values in the Host header | ||
| prevents DNS rebinding attacks. Implementations can opt to provide more | ||
| stringent controls where appropriate, for example only accepting connections | ||
| when the |host| value corresponds to a loopback interface [[!RFC5735]]. | ||
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I'd add a note about the Docker edge case here as well: w3c/webdriver#1634 (comment)
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Check the Host and Origin headers for the incoming connection to
verify the connection is allowed.
The language is intended to allow the specific behaviour to be largely
implementation defined, whilst recommending a default
behaviour that prevents CSRF-type attacks (reject host headers that
aren't an IP address or the server hostname, reject any requests with
an origin header).
Hopefully adding this text will ensure that implementations consider
the security issues accepting a connection, even though it's not
possible to give precise requirements that apply to all
implementations.
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