OTWO-7731 Application Potentially Vulnerable to BREACH Attack (CVE-20… - #1947
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Pull request overview
This PR adds a Rails middleware-based mitigation for BREACH (CVE-2013-3587) by attempting to disable HTTP compression for API responses, and wires it into the Rails middleware stack ahead of Rack::Deflater.
Changes:
- Add
SuppressApiCompressionmiddleware to alterAccept-Encodingand response headers for/api/*requests. - Insert the new middleware before
Rack::Deflaterinconfig/application.rb.
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| config/application.rb | Loads and inserts the new BREACH-mitigation middleware before Rack::Deflater. |
| app/middleware/suppress_api_compression.rb | Implements API-path-specific compression suppression via request/response header manipulation. |
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