Content Security Policy Level 3 'strict-dynamic'

…makes CSP deployments easier. This demo page will show you why and how.

The server has sent this header to your browser

Content-Security-Policy: script-src 'strict-dynamic' 'nonce-MpOfzouVCIinaBrHxjDTQQ==' 'unsafe-inline' http: https:; object-src 'none'; base-uri 'none'

The script-src values

'strict-dynamic'
Allows script which executes on a page to load more scripts via non-"HTML-parser-inserted" script elements using document.createElement('script'); or similar (CSP3 and above)
'nonce-MpOfzouVCIinaBrHxjDTQQ=='
Scripts with nonce="MpOfzouVCIinaBrHxjDTQQ==" can be fetched and executed (CSP2 and above)
'unsafe-inline'
unsafe-inline is ignored if a nonce or a hash is present (CSP2 and above)
Because of strict-dynamic this entry is ignored (CSP3 and above)
http:
Because of strict-dynamic this entry is ignored (CSP3 and above)
https:
Because of strict-dynamic this entry is ignored (CSP3 and above)

The object-src values

'none'
Don't allow embedding Flash content, potentially with XSS vulnerabilities

The base-uri values

'none'
Prevents injection of base tags, which can be used to set the base URL for relative script URLs to an evil domain

Demo

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Parser-inserted script element, will not work in browsers supporting 'strict-dynamic', check console (Switch to non-parser-inserted)

In a browser with CSP Level 3 support (in Chrome 52+, Firefox 52+, Safari 15.4+)

  1. The color.js script was loaded using <script nonce="MpOfzouVCIinaBrHxjDTQQ==" src="color.js">
  2. color.js is allowed to load jQuery from https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.js using document.createElement('script'); because of strict-dynamic
  3. jQuery "click" handler is attached

In a browser with CSP Level 2 support

  1. The color.js script was loaded using <script nonce="MpOfzouVCIinaBrHxjDTQQ==" src="color.js">
  2. color.js is allowed to load jQuery from https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.js because of https:
  3. jQuery "click" handler is attached

In a browser with CSP Level 1 support

  1. The color.js script was loaded using <script src="color.js"> because of https:, nonce was ignored
  2. color.js is allowed to load jQuery from https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.js because of https:
  3. jQuery "click" handler is attached

Disable backward compatibility

Parser-inserted?

'strict-dynamic' doesn't allow executed script to load more scripts via "HTML-parser-inserted" script elements (regular <script> tags). That means that the following script or similar will not work. (Try it anyway)

<script nonce="MpOfzouVCIinaBrHxjDTQQ==">
document.write('<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.js" async defer><\/script>');
</script>

Nonce format

Nonce needs to be a Base64-value, otherwise browsers will ignore it. Try non-Base64-value and check console.

Check also general host-based CSP demo page and reporting demo app.

Source code on GitHub