I'm trying to disable JBOSS HTTP OPTIONS method. Using the following syntax in the web.xml in JBoss, I can disable all the http-method except OPTIONS. Is there a way to successfully disable http-method OPTIONS?
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<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>Restricted</web-resource-name>
<description>Declarative security tests</description>
<url-pattern>/EVE/*</url-pattern>
<http-method>PUT</http-method>
<http-method>DELETE</http-method>
<http-method>OPTIONS</http-method>
<http-method>TRACE</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<description>Only authenticated users can access secure content</description>
<role-name>AuthorizedUser</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
<user-data-constraint>
<description>no description</description>
<transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
</user-data-constraint>
</security-constraint> <security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>Restricted 2</web-resource-name>
<description>Declarative security tests</description>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<http-method>PUT</http-method>
<http-method>DELETE</http-method>
<http-method>OPTIONS</http-method>
<http-method>TRACE</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<description>Only authenticated users can access secure content</description>
<role-name>AuthorizedUser</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
<user-data-constraint>
<description>no description</description>
<transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
</user-data-constraint>
</security-constraint>
Option 1 - Using RewriteValve (can apply globally)
You can use RewriteValve to disable the http methods. Take a look at documentation. You will need one RewriteCond directive and one RewriteRule.
In your RewriteCond directive you could specify all methods with use of the REQUEST_METHOD server variable, for example:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(PUT|DELETE|TRACE|OPTIONS)$ [NC]
then your RewriteRule can mark those as forbidden (it immediately sends back a HTTP response of 403 (FORBIDDEN)), for example:
RewriteRule .* - [F]
In case of Jboss EAP 6
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:web:1.1" default-virtual-server="default-host" native="false">
<connector name="http" protocol="HTTP/1.1" scheme="http" socket-binding="http"/>
<virtual-server name="default-host" enable-welcome-root="true">
<rewrite pattern=".*" substitution="-" flags="F">
<condition test="%{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="^(PUT|DELETE|TRACE|OPTIONS)$" flags="NC" />
</rewrite>
</virtual-server>
</subsystem>
Apart from this as said in above answer it can be done via web.xml per war wise.
To check above use
curl -v -X TRACE http://hostname:port/appContext
curl -v -X DELETE http://hostname:port/appContex
I'd suggest using mod_rewrite. It is cleaner.
here are the following ways to limit HTTP methods in a web application:
1. Adding security constraints in web.xml
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>NoAccess</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<http-method>DELETE</http-method>
<http-method>TRACE</http-method>
<http-method>OPTIONS</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint/>
</security-constraint>
Here DELETE, TRACE and OPTIONS are restricted for all urls. curl -kvv -X DELETE <url> will give 403 Forbidden
2. Using Rewrite rules in domain.xml
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:web:1.1" default-virtual-server="default-host" native="false">
<connector name="http" protocol="HTTP/1.1" scheme="http" socket-binding="http"/>
<virtual-server name="default-host" enable-welcome-root="true">
<rewrite pattern=".*" substitution="-" flags="F">
<condition test="%{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="^(DELETE|TRACE|OPTIONS)$" flags="NC" />
</rewrite>
</virtual-server>
</subsystem>
3. Using mod_rewrite in httpd
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(DELETE|TRACE|OPTIONS)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
Using the response of Ravikant Sharma (thanks)
Find the server.xml
(in my case /jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/deploy/jbossweb.sar)
Inside tags < Engine > and < Host > you could see a < valve > tag, you should insert a new valve tag like this:
< Valve className="org.jboss.web.rewrite.RewriteValve" />
Then in config folder in my case /jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/conf/
.
See if you have the following paths and file (if you don't, you need create it) - /jboss.web/localhost/rewrite.properties
Inside the above file add the below lines:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(OPTIONS)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
So before the configuration you see the below result:
curl -i -X OPTIONS http://192.168.133.1:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-Powered-By: Servlet 2.5; JBoss-5.0/JBossWeb-2.1
Allow: GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS
Content-Length: 0
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 01:13:37 GMT
After configuration, you will see the below output:
curl -i -X OPTIONS http://192.168.133.1:8080
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 01:19:34 GMT