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HTTPserver: support "chunked" Transfer-Encoding

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Authored by Matthew Zipkin

45/100 · Thin
HTTPserver: support "chunked" Transfer-Encoding
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds support for HTTP 'chunked' transfer encoding to Bitcoin Core's built-in HTTP server. Before this change, the server only understood requests with a plain Content-Length body. The patch implements chunk-size parsing, chunk-extension handling, trailer skipping, and size limits. It also includes tests for valid, oversized, malformed, and delayed chunked requests. There is no direct evidence in the commit that this fixes a known security vulnerability, but adding chunked parsing is a sensitive network-facing change that could affect availability or request handling if implemented incorrectly.

Recommended action

Review the chunked parser for HTTP request smuggling or desynchronization issues, especially interactions between Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding, trailer parsing limits, and chunk-extension edge cases. Verify that the server rejects ambiguous or simultaneous Content-Length + chunked requests. Run the new tests and consider fuzzing the parser with malformed chunked input.

Security signals we found

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New network-facing HTTP parser code for chunked transfer encoding

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Addition of size-limit checks against MAX_BODY_SIZE during chunked parsing

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Handling of chunk extensions and trailers, which are common sources of parser smuggling bugs

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CRLF termination validation for chunks

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Removal of prior TODO indicating chunked support was unimplemented

Risk score

Why this scored 38/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 7/25
Stealth signal 6/15
Affected reach 8/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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