Cloudflare Developers•8mo ago

Weird HTTP traffic passing through [HTTP 499 with random referers]

We've been experiencing weird attacks coming through CF. The requests are HTTP/2.0 with no CF-Connecting-IP Header and random referers.

172.70.47.130 - - [23/Apr/2024:02:25:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "https://amazon.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
172.70.47.130 - - [23/Apr/2024:02:25:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "https://instagram.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
172.70.47.130 - - [23/Apr/2024:02:25:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "https://wikipedia.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
172.70.47.130 - - [23/Apr/2024:02:25:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "https://facebook.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
172.70.47.130 - - [23/Apr/2024:02:25:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "https://instagram.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

172.70.47.130 - - [23/Apr/2024:02:25:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "https://amazon.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
172.70.47.130 - - [23/Apr/2024:02:25:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "https://instagram.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
172.70.47.130 - - [23/Apr/2024:02:25:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "https://wikipedia.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
172.70.47.130 - - [23/Apr/2024:02:25:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "https://facebook.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
172.70.47.130 - - [23/Apr/2024:02:25:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "https://instagram.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

1.5k req/s passed through to the server. Any ideas on how to handle these better and stop them from passing through to the origin?

4 Replies

DoxylaminOP•8mo ago

After further investigation it looks like the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack Vector, which seems to be non-mitigated by cloudflare?

Beny•8mo ago

Cloudflare is protected by rapid reset: https://cloudflare.com/h2/ Perhaps they went to the origin server directly?

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trentk•8mo ago

You could probably mitigate at least a portion of this by just blocking most of those referers. How many people are getting referred from https://instagram.com/ ? even if you have an instagram page, the referrer isn't going to be just the homepage, right? Same thing with Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc.

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DoxylaminOP•8mo ago

As you can see in the attached image, all requests are coming from CF's IP range. https://radb.net/query?keywords=172.70.47.130

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Weird HTTP traffic passing through [HTTP 499 with random referers]