feat(enrichment): flag insecure HTTP security-header settings in iac-misconfig

review-enrichment/src/analyzers/iac-misconfig.ts

@@ -105,6 +105,14 @@ const NO_NEW_PRIVILEGES_OFF_RE = /\bno-new-privileges[=:]\s*["']?false\b/i;
 const DOCKER_SOCKET_MOUNT_RE =
   /\/var\/run\/docker\.sock:|\bsource\s*:\s*["']?\/var\/run\/docker\.sock\b/;
 
+// HTTP security-header misconfigurations (nginx/Apache/Caddy conf, Helm ingress annotations, netlify.toml
+// headers, …). Each rule requires ITS OWN header token to be present on the same line as the weakening value,
+// so an unrelated line that merely contains the value (a `Cache-Control: max-age=0` caching directive) is NOT
+// flagged — only a line that is actually setting that header.
+const HSTS_DISABLED_RE = /\bStrict-Transport-Security\b[^\n]*\bmax-age\s*=\s*0\b/i;
+const REFERRER_UNSAFE_URL_RE = /\bReferrer-Policy\b[^\n]*\bunsafe-url\b/i;
+const COOKIE_NOT_HTTPONLY_RE = /\bhttp[_-]?only\b[\s"'=:,-]*false\b/i;
+
 function* patchLines(patch: string): Generator<string> {
   let start = 0;
   for (let i = 0; i <= patch.length; i++) {
@@ -515,6 +523,24 @@ export function scanPatchForIacMisconfig(
     ) {
       return findings;
     }
+    if (
+      HSTS_DISABLED_RE.test(body) &&
+      pushFinding(findings, seen, path, newLine, "hsts-disabled", maxFindings)
+    ) {
+      return findings;
+    }
+    if (
+      REFERRER_UNSAFE_URL_RE.test(body) &&
+      pushFinding(findings, seen, path, newLine, "referrer-policy-leak", maxFindings)
+    ) {
+      return findings;
+    }
+    if (
+      COOKIE_NOT_HTTPONLY_RE.test(body) &&
+      pushFinding(findings, seen, path, newLine, "cookie-not-httponly", maxFindings)
+    ) {
+      return findings;
+    }
 
     newLine++;
   }

review-enrichment/src/render.ts

@@ -353,6 +353,12 @@ export function renderBrief(
           return "disables the `no-new-privileges` protection, allowing setuid binaries to escalate privileges";
         case "docker-socket-mount":
           return "mounts the host Docker socket (`/var/run/docker.sock`) into the container — this grants host-level control";
+        case "hsts-disabled":
+          return "disables HSTS with `Strict-Transport-Security` `max-age=0`, so browsers stop enforcing HTTPS for the host";
+        case "referrer-policy-leak":
+          return "sets `Referrer-Policy: unsafe-url`, leaking the full URL (path and query) to cross-origin destinations";
+        case "cookie-not-httponly":
+          return "sets `httpOnly: false` on a cookie, exposing it to JavaScript so an XSS can read it";
       }
     };
 

review-enrichment/src/types.ts

@@ -257,7 +257,10 @@ export interface IacMisconfigFinding {
     | "ipc-host"
     | "cap-add-all"
     | "no-new-privileges-off"
-    | "docker-socket-mount";
+    | "docker-socket-mount"
+    | "hsts-disabled"
+    | "referrer-policy-leak"
+    | "cookie-not-httponly";
 }
 
 /** A newly-added dependency whose install compiles native code (npm node-gyp addon) or has no prebuilt wheel

review-enrichment/test/iac-misconfig.test.ts

@@ -444,3 +444,40 @@ test("scanPatchForIacMisconfig does not flag the secure counterpart of each cont
     );
   }
 });
+
+test("scanPatchForIacMisconfig flags insecure HTTP security-header settings", () => {
+  // Each matched value is the weakening itself, so there is no safe-value form of the same line.
+  const cases = [
+    ["+    add_header Strict-Transport-Security \"max-age=0\";", "hsts-disabled"],
+    ["+    add_header Referrer-Policy \"unsafe-url\";", "referrer-policy-leak"],
+    ["+    httpOnly: false", "cookie-not-httponly"],
+  ];
+  for (const [added, kind] of cases) {
+    const findings = scanPatchForIacMisconfig(
+      "nginx.conf",
+      ["@@ -1,0 +1,1 @@", added].join("\n"),
+    );
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      findings,
+      [{ file: "nginx.conf", line: 1, kind }],
+      `${kind}: expected exactly one finding of that kind, got ${JSON.stringify(findings)}`,
+    );
+  }
+});
+
+test("scanPatchForIacMisconfig does not flag secure HTTP header values (incl. Cache-Control max-age=0)", () => {
+  const safe = [
+    "+    add_header Strict-Transport-Security \"max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains\";",
+    // Cache-Control max-age=0 is a NORMAL caching directive and must NOT fire the HSTS rule.
+    "+    add_header Cache-Control \"max-age=0\";",
+    "+    add_header Referrer-Policy \"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\";",
+    "+    httpOnly: true",
+  ];
+  for (const added of safe) {
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      scanPatchForIacMisconfig("nginx.conf", ["@@ -1,0 +1,1 @@", added].join("\n")),
+      [],
+      `should not flag: ${added.trim()}`,
+    );
+  }
+});