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Module 05 · HTTP Headers

Flag: --skip-headers

Audits HTTP response headers for security misconfigurations.

Required security headers

Header Severity if absent Notes
Content-Security-Policy MEDIUM Also audits CSP value for unsafe-inline, unsafe-eval, wildcards
X-Frame-Options MEDIUM Clickjacking protection
X-Content-Type-Options LOW MIME sniffing prevention
Referrer-Policy LOW URL leakage control
Permissions-Policy LOW Browser API restrictions
Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy LOW Cross-origin isolation
Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy LOW Resource access control

CSP deep audit

When CSP is present, the module further checks:

CSP Condition Severity
unsafe-inline or unsafe-eval present MEDIUM
Wildcard (*) in script-src or default-src HIGH

Version-leaking headers

Headers that should not be present in production:

Server · X-Powered-By · X-AspNet-Version · X-AspNetMvc-Version · X-Generator · X-CF-Powered-By

Each flagged as LOW.

Every Set-Cookie response header is analysed for:

Missing flag Severity
HttpOnly MEDIUM
Secure MEDIUM
SameSite LOW
SameSite=None without Secure MEDIUM

HTTP → HTTPS redirect

Checks whether HTTP requests are automatically upgraded to HTTPS.

Condition Severity
HTTP does not redirect to HTTPS MEDIUM

Cache-Control

Condition Severity
Cache-Control header absent LOW

Output files

headers/
├── response_headers.txt
└── initial_response.txt