diff --git a/src/net/http/internal/chunked.go b/src/net/http/internal/chunked.go
index f06e5725f34..62d8ead625b 100644
--- a/src/net/http/internal/chunked.go
+++ b/src/net/http/internal/chunked.go
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ type chunkedReader struct {
 	err      error
 	buf      [2]byte
 	checkEnd bool // whether need to check for \r\n chunk footer
+	excess   int64 // "excessive" chunk overhead, for malicious sender detection
 }
 
 func (cr *chunkedReader) beginChunk() {
@@ -49,10 +50,38 @@ func (cr *chunkedReader) beginChunk() {
 	if cr.err != nil {
 		return
 	}
+	cr.excess += int64(len(line)) + 2 // header, plus \r\n after the chunk data
+	line = trimTrailingWhitespace(line)
+	line, cr.err = removeChunkExtension(line)
+	if cr.err != nil {
+		return
+	}
 	cr.n, cr.err = parseHexUint(line)
 	if cr.err != nil {
 		return
 	}
+	// A sender who sends one byte per chunk will send 5 bytes of overhead
+	// for every byte of data. ("1\r\nX\r\n" to send "X".)
+	// We want to allow this, since streaming a byte at a time can be legitimate.
+	//
+	// A sender can use chunk extensions to add arbitrary amounts of additional
+	// data per byte read. ("1;very long extension\r\nX\r\n" to send "X".)
+	// We don't want to disallow extensions (although we discard them),
+	// but we also don't want to allow a sender to reduce the signal/noise ratio
+	// arbitrarily.
+	//
+	// We track the amount of excess overhead read,
+	// and produce an error if it grows too large.
+	//
+	// Currently, we say that we're willing to accept 16 bytes of overhead per chunk,
+	// plus twice the amount of real data in the chunk.
+	cr.excess -= 16 + (2 * int64(cr.n))
+	if cr.excess < 0 {
+		cr.excess = 0
+	}
+	if cr.excess > 16*1024 {
+		cr.err = errors.New("chunked encoding contains too much non-data")
+	}
 	if cr.n == 0 {
 		cr.err = io.EOF
 	}
@@ -133,11 +162,6 @@ func readChunkLine(b *bufio.Reader) ([]byte, error) {
 	if len(p) >= maxLineLength {
 		return nil, ErrLineTooLong
 	}
-	p = trimTrailingWhitespace(p)
-	p, err = removeChunkExtension(p)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
 	return p, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/src/net/http/internal/chunked_test.go b/src/net/http/internal/chunked_test.go
index 08152ed1e24..5fbeb0855f1 100644
--- a/src/net/http/internal/chunked_test.go
+++ b/src/net/http/internal/chunked_test.go
@@ -211,3 +211,62 @@ func TestChunkReadPartial(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 }
+
+func TestChunkReaderTooMuchOverhead(t *testing.T) {
+	// If the sender is sending 100x as many chunk header bytes as chunk data,
+	// we should reject the stream at some point.
+	chunk := []byte("1;")
+	for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
+		chunk = append(chunk, 'a') // chunk extension
+	}
+	chunk = append(chunk, "\r\nX\r\n"...)
+	const bodylen = 1 << 20
+	r := NewChunkedReader(&funcReader{f: func(i int) ([]byte, error) {
+		if i < bodylen {
+			return chunk, nil
+		}
+		return []byte("0\r\n"), nil
+	}})
+	_, err := io.ReadAll(r)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("successfully read body with excessive overhead; want error")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestChunkReaderByteAtATime(t *testing.T) {
+	// Sending one byte per chunk should not trip the excess-overhead detection.
+	const bodylen = 1 << 20
+	r := NewChunkedReader(&funcReader{f: func(i int) ([]byte, error) {
+		if i < bodylen {
+			return []byte("1\r\nX\r\n"), nil
+		}
+		return []byte("0\r\n"), nil
+	}})
+	got, err := io.ReadAll(r)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(got) != bodylen {
+		t.Errorf("read %v bytes, want %v", len(got), bodylen)
+	}
+}
+
+type funcReader struct {
+	f   func(iteration int) ([]byte, error)
+	i   int
+	b   []byte
+	err error
+}
+
+func (r *funcReader) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
+	if len(r.b) == 0 && r.err == nil {
+		r.b, r.err = r.f(r.i)
+		r.i++
+	}
+	n = copy(p, r.b)
+	r.b = r.b[n:]
+	if len(r.b) > 0 {
+		return n, nil
+	}
+	return n, r.err
+}