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AWS Foundational Security Best Practice
ELB.4
Application load balancer should be configured to drop http headers
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Elastic Load Balancing
This control evaluates AWS Application Load Balancers (ALB) to ensure they are configured to drop http headers. By default; ALBs are not configured to drop invalid http header values. This control evaluates all ALBs fails if the attribute value of routing.http.drop_invalid_header_fields.enabled is set to false.
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