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              "value": "\u003ch3\u003eDisable HTTP/2\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vulnerability can only be exploited if HTTP/2 support is enabled. Where it\nis, it can be disabled\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eat runtime by issuing \u003ccode\u003evinyladm param.set feature -http2\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003epersistently by removing \u003ccode\u003e-p feature=+http2\u003c/code\u003e from the \u003ccode\u003evinyld\u003c/code\u003e startup\nparameters\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote that HTTP/2 typically requires a TLS offloader, which must be changed to no\nlonger send the \u003ccode\u003eh2\u003c/code\u003e ALPN. For example with \u003ccode\u003ehaproxy\u003c/code\u003e, in the\n\u003ccode\u003elisten\u003c/code\u003e/\u003ccode\u003ebind\u003c/code\u003e configuration directive, \u003ccode\u003ealpn h2,http/1.1\u003c/code\u003e should be\nreplaced with \u003ccode\u003ealpn http/1.1\u003c/code\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e"
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              "value": "\u003ch3\u003eIn VCL, add a vmod re2 header filter\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis method requires \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://gitlab.com/uplex/varnish/libvmod-re2\"\u003evmod_re2\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://gitlab.com/uplex/varnish/libvmod-re2\"\u003evmod_re2\u003c/a\u003e header filters (see the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://vinyl-cache.org/tutorials/hdr_filter.html\"\u003etutorial\u003c/a\u003e for more information) can be\nused to remove injected invalid header lines, which are the vehicle required for\nlaunching desync attacks exploiting this vulnerability.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo the best of our knowledge, the following VCL snippet at the top of the custom\nVCL adds protection by removing invalid headers:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cpre\u003e## BEGIN vsv19 mitigation\n#\nimport re2;\nsub vcl_init {\n        new sane = re2.set(anchor=start, case_sensitive=false);\n        # https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#rule.token.separators\n        # SLIGHTLY more relaxed, because it allows trailing SP / HTAB\n        sane.add(\"[-!#$%\u0026amp;\u0027*+.^_`|~a-z0-9]+:[\\s\\x21-\\x7E\\x80-\\xff]+$\");\n}\nsub vcl_recv {\n        sane.hdr_filter(req, true);\n}\n#\n## END vsv19 mitigation\n\u003c/pre\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo the best of our knowledge, where \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://gitlab.com/uplex/varnish/libvmod-re2\"\u003evmod_re2\u003c/a\u003e is already used with a\n\u003ccode\u003ehdr_filter\u003c/code\u003e in allow mode (second argument \u003ccode\u003etrue\u003c/code\u003e), protection is already\nsufficient unless the empty string is allowed.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e"
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