Parse Content-Disposition Header Safely

Parse attachment and inline headers, including RFC 5987 filename*, while stripping directory components from untrusted names.

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Code

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export function parseContentDisposition(header) {
  if (typeof header !== "string" || header.trim() === "") {
    throw new TypeError("header must be a non-empty string");
  }
  const segments = splitParameters(header);
  const type = segments.shift().trim().toLowerCase();
  if (type !== "inline" && type !== "attachment") {
    throw new Error(`unsupported disposition type "${type}"`);
  }
  const parameters = new Map();
  for (const segment of segments) {
    const equals = segment.indexOf("=");
    if (equals === -1) continue;
    const name = segment.slice(0, equals).trim().toLowerCase();
    if (name === "") continue;
    parameters.set(name, unquote(segment.slice(equals + 1).trim()));
  }
  return { type, filename: resolveFilename(parameters), parameters };
}

function splitParameters(header) {
  const segments = [];
  let current = "";
  let quoted = false;
  for (const character of header) {
    if (character === '"') quoted = !quoted;
    if (character === ";" && !quoted) {
      segments.push(current);
      current = "";
      continue;
    }
    current += character;
  }
  segments.push(current);
  return segments;
}

function unquote(value) {
  if (value.length >= 2 && value.startsWith('"') && value.endsWith('"')) {
    return value.slice(1, -1).replace(/\\(.)/g, "$1");
  }
  return value;
}

function resolveFilename(parameters) {
  const extended = parameters.get("filename*");
  if (extended !== undefined) {
    const match = /^([\w-]+)'([\w-]*)'(.+)$/.exec(extended);
    if (match !== null) {
      try {
        return sanitize(decodeURIComponent(match[3]));
      } catch {
        return sanitize(extended);
      }
    }
  }
  const plain = parameters.get("filename");
  return plain === undefined ? null : sanitize(plain);
}

function sanitize(filename) {
  return filename.split(/[\\/]/).pop() || null;
}

console.log(parseContentDisposition('attachment; filename="report.pdf"'));
console.log(parseContentDisposition("attachment; filename*=UTF-8''%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87.pdf"));
console.log(parseContentDisposition('inline; filename="../../etc/passwd"'));