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fix: use hex escape to block backslash open redirect in trailing-slash rewrite (#2361)
## Summary - Previous fixes using backslash literals (`\\\\`, `\\`) in nginx regex didn't work in production due to escaping differences across nginx versions/environments - Uses `\x5c` (PCRE hex escape for backslash byte) in a `map` directive - completely unambiguous, no escaping issues possible - The `map` sets `$uri_has_backslash` from `$uri` (nginx's decoded form), and `if ($uri_has_backslash) { return 404; }` inside the trailing-slash location prevents the redirect Fixes apify/apify-core#26551 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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proxy_pass $backend$uri;
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}
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# Block URLs containing backslash (decoded from %5C by nginx).
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# Without this, the trailing-slash rewrite puts \ in the Location header,
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# and browsers normalize \ to /, turning /\evil.com into //evil.com
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# (a protocol-relative URL that redirects to evil.com).
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# Uses \x5c (hex for 0x5C) to avoid nginx config escaping ambiguity.
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# Regex locations are checked in config order, so this fires before the
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# trailing-slash rewrite below.
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location ~ \x5c {
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return 404;
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}
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# remove trailing slashes from all URLs (except root /)
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# exact match locations (e.g., location = /sdk/js/) take priority over this regex
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# [^\\\\] excludes backslashes to prevent open redirect: nginx decodes %5C to \ in $uri,
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# and \ in the Location header gets normalized to / by browsers, turning /\evil.com
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# into the protocol-relative URL //evil.com which redirects to evil.com.
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location ~ ^([^\\\\]+)/$ {
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location ~ ^(.+)/$ {
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rewrite ^(.+)/$ $1$is_args$args? redirect;
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}
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