C#


ROSLYN.SECURITY.CA5365 : Do Not Disable HTTP Header Checking (C#)

See Roslyn-Detected C# Warning Classes for more information.

Summary

HTTP header checking enables encoding of the carriage return and newline characters, \r and \n, that are found in response headers. This encoding can help to avoid injection attacks that exploit an application that echoes untrusted data contained by the header.

This check corresponds to Roslyn rule CA5365. For full rule details, see the Microsoft website: CA5365.

Properties

Class Name Do Not Disable HTTP Header Checking (C#)
Significance security
Mnemonic ROSLYN.SECURITY.CA5365
Categories None
Availability Available for C# only.
Enabling Checks for this warning class are enabled by default. To disable them, add the following WARNING_FILTER rule to the project configuration file.
WARNING_FILTER += discard class="Do Not Disable HTTP Header Checking (C#)"

Relevant Configuration File Parameters

The following configuration file parameters affect checks for this warning class.