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Added web security headers for nginx configuration #5183

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Added web security headers for nginx configuration
ashwini-orchestral Mar 8, 2021
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Removed unwanted server-tokens from config
ashwini-orchestral Mar 9, 2021
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Added server_tokens in server and removed server_tokens from other pl…
ashwini-orchestral Mar 10, 2021
645db4e
Remove support for TLS v1.0 and v1.1.
Kami Mar 10, 2021
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Removed Cache-control header as per review comment
ashwini-orchestral Mar 11, 2021
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Merge branch 'nginx-conf' of https://github.com/ashwini-orchestral/st…
ashwini-orchestral Mar 11, 2021
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Merge branch 'master' of github.com:StackStorm/st2 into nginx-conf
Kami Mar 11, 2021
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Add changelog entry for nginx.conf TLS v1.2 change.
Kami Mar 11, 2021
ce0e767
Modified Changelog entry
ashwini-orchestral Mar 12, 2021
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Update CHANGELOG.rst
Kami Mar 12, 2021
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Merge branch 'master' into nginx-conf
Kami Mar 12, 2021
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Update CHANGELOG.rst
Kami Mar 12, 2021
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions conf/nginx/st2.conf
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Expand Up @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ server {

add_header Front-End-Https on;
add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
add_header X-Frame-Options DENY always;
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=3153600;includeSubDomains";
add_header Cache-Control "no-store; no-cache; max-age=0; must-revalidate;";
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While the security-focused headers are all good, I'm wondering what would be the user impact for the Cache-Control changes here and totally disabling the caching? @ashwini-orchestral what are the specific reasons behind hardening cache-control this way?

WDYT @StackStorm/maintainers @StackStorm/contributors? Any downsides, any behavior/UX changes you could think of?

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Yeah, +1, I don't see much benefit security wise from cache control headers, it would just slow things down if we need to re-fetch all the static resources on each page (re)load...

But others (iframe, stric transport security, etc.) are indeed a good idea 👍

On that note, I believe we need to sync up multiple places (if they don't contain those headers already) - Docker, installer, etc. Or do those places use config from this repo?

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Right, we're pulling in all the places nginx config from the st2 repo (this file).

I think only Puppet is different with the templating @nmaludy ? I guess you'll need to update that

add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";

location @apiError {
add_header Content-Type application/json always;
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error_page 502 = @apiError;

rewrite ^/api/(.*) /$1 break;
server_tokens off;

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9101/;
proxy_read_timeout 90;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -91,6 +96,7 @@ server {
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
server_tokens off;

# Disable buffering and chunked encoding.
# In the stream case we want to receive the whole payload at once, we don't
Expand All @@ -110,6 +116,7 @@ server {
error_page 502 = @authError;

rewrite ^/auth/(.*) /$1 break;
server_tokens off;

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9100/;
proxy_read_timeout 90;
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