diff --git a/src/Kestrel.Core/Http2Limits.cs b/src/Kestrel.Core/Http2Limits.cs
index d615df0e94..e2914ac150 100644
--- a/src/Kestrel.Core/Http2Limits.cs
+++ b/src/Kestrel.Core/Http2Limits.cs
@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core
         private int _maxStreamsPerConnection = 100;
         private int _headerTableSize = (int)Http2PeerSettings.DefaultHeaderTableSize;
         private int _maxFrameSize = (int)Http2PeerSettings.DefaultMaxFrameSize;
+        private int _maxRequestHeaderFieldSize = 8192;
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Limits the number of concurrent request streams per HTTP/2 connection. Excess streams will be refused.
         /// <para>
-        /// Defaults to 100
+        /// Value must be greater than 0, defaults to 100
         /// </para>
         /// </summary>
         public int MaxStreamsPerConnection
@@ -74,5 +75,25 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core
                 _maxFrameSize = value;
             }
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Indicates the size of the maximum allowed size of a request header field sequence. This limit applies to both name and value sequences in their compressed and uncompressed representations.
+        /// <para>
+        /// Value must be greater than 0, defaults to 8192
+        /// </para>
+        /// </summary>
+        public int MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize
+        {
+            get => _maxRequestHeaderFieldSize;
+            set
+            {
+                if (value <= 0)
+                {
+                    throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(value), value, CoreStrings.GreaterThanZeroRequired);
+                }
+
+                _maxRequestHeaderFieldSize = value;
+            }
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Kestrel.Core/Internal/Http2/HPack/HPackDecoder.cs b/src/Kestrel.Core/Internal/Http2/HPack/HPackDecoder.cs
index 3b6cc0f00b..e88a4e077b 100644
--- a/src/Kestrel.Core/Internal/Http2/HPack/HPackDecoder.cs
+++ b/src/Kestrel.Core/Internal/Http2/HPack/HPackDecoder.cs
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Internal.Http2.HPack
             DynamicTableSizeUpdate
         }
 
-        // TODO: add new configurable limit
-        public const int MaxStringOctets = 4096;
-
         // http://httpwg.org/specs/rfc7541.html#rfc.section.6.1
         //   0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7
         // +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
@@ -83,9 +80,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Internal.Http2.HPack
         private readonly int _maxDynamicTableSize;
         private readonly DynamicTable _dynamicTable;
         private readonly IntegerDecoder _integerDecoder = new IntegerDecoder();
-        private readonly byte[] _stringOctets = new byte[MaxStringOctets];
-        private readonly byte[] _headerNameOctets = new byte[MaxStringOctets];
-        private readonly byte[] _headerValueOctets = new byte[MaxStringOctets];
+        private readonly byte[] _stringOctets;
+        private readonly byte[] _headerNameOctets;
+        private readonly byte[] _headerValueOctets;
 
         private State _state = State.Ready;
         private byte[] _headerName;
@@ -97,17 +94,18 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Internal.Http2.HPack
         private bool _huffman;
         private bool _headersObserved;
 
-        public HPackDecoder(int maxDynamicTableSize)
-            : this(maxDynamicTableSize, new DynamicTable(maxDynamicTableSize))
-        {
-            _maxDynamicTableSize = maxDynamicTableSize;
-        }
+        public HPackDecoder(int maxDynamicTableSize, int maxRequestHeaderFieldSize)
+            : this(maxDynamicTableSize, maxRequestHeaderFieldSize, new DynamicTable(maxDynamicTableSize)) { }
 
         // For testing.
-        internal HPackDecoder(int maxDynamicTableSize, DynamicTable dynamicTable)
+        internal HPackDecoder(int maxDynamicTableSize, int maxRequestHeaderFieldSize, DynamicTable dynamicTable)
         {
             _maxDynamicTableSize = maxDynamicTableSize;
             _dynamicTable = dynamicTable;
+
+            _stringOctets = new byte[maxRequestHeaderFieldSize];
+            _headerNameOctets = new byte[maxRequestHeaderFieldSize];
+            _headerValueOctets = new byte[maxRequestHeaderFieldSize];
         }
 
         public void Decode(ReadOnlySequence<byte> data, bool endHeaders, IHttpHeadersHandler handler)
diff --git a/src/Kestrel.Core/Internal/Http2/Http2Connection.cs b/src/Kestrel.Core/Internal/Http2/Http2Connection.cs
index 25500bb28a..9bbf1a9236 100644
--- a/src/Kestrel.Core/Internal/Http2/Http2Connection.cs
+++ b/src/Kestrel.Core/Internal/Http2/Http2Connection.cs
@@ -86,13 +86,16 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Internal.Http2
 
         public Http2Connection(Http2ConnectionContext context)
         {
+            var httpLimits = context.ServiceContext.ServerOptions.Limits;
+            var http2Limits = httpLimits.Http2;
+
             _context = context;
             _frameWriter = new Http2FrameWriter(context.Transport.Output, context.ConnectionContext, _outputFlowControl, this, context.ConnectionId, context.ServiceContext.Log);
-            _serverSettings.MaxConcurrentStreams = (uint)context.ServiceContext.ServerOptions.Limits.Http2.MaxStreamsPerConnection;
-            _serverSettings.MaxFrameSize = (uint)context.ServiceContext.ServerOptions.Limits.Http2.MaxFrameSize;
-            _serverSettings.HeaderTableSize = (uint)context.ServiceContext.ServerOptions.Limits.Http2.HeaderTableSize;
-            _hpackDecoder = new HPackDecoder((int)_serverSettings.HeaderTableSize);
-            _serverSettings.MaxHeaderListSize = (uint)context.ServiceContext.ServerOptions.Limits.MaxRequestHeadersTotalSize;
+            _serverSettings.MaxConcurrentStreams = (uint)http2Limits.MaxStreamsPerConnection;
+            _serverSettings.MaxFrameSize = (uint)http2Limits.MaxFrameSize;
+            _serverSettings.HeaderTableSize = (uint)http2Limits.HeaderTableSize;
+            _hpackDecoder = new HPackDecoder(http2Limits.HeaderTableSize, http2Limits.MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize);
+            _serverSettings.MaxHeaderListSize = (uint)httpLimits.MaxRequestHeadersTotalSize;
         }
 
         public string ConnectionId => _context.ConnectionId;
diff --git a/test/Kestrel.Core.Tests/HPackDecoderTests.cs b/test/Kestrel.Core.Tests/HPackDecoderTests.cs
index c45614348a..598a7a6ed5 100644
--- a/test/Kestrel.Core.Tests/HPackDecoderTests.cs
+++ b/test/Kestrel.Core.Tests/HPackDecoderTests.cs
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Tests
     public class HPackDecoderTests : IHttpHeadersHandler
     {
         private const int DynamicTableInitialMaxSize = 4096;
+        private const int MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize = 8192;
 
         // Indexed Header Field Representation - Static Table - Index 2 (:method: GET)
         private static readonly byte[] _indexedHeaderStatic = new byte[] { 0x82 };
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Tests
         public HPackDecoderTests()
         {
             _dynamicTable = new DynamicTable(DynamicTableInitialMaxSize);
-            _decoder = new HPackDecoder(DynamicTableInitialMaxSize, _dynamicTable);
+            _decoder = new HPackDecoder(DynamicTableInitialMaxSize, MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize, _dynamicTable);
         }
 
         void IHttpHeadersHandler.OnHeader(Span<byte> name, Span<byte> value)
@@ -438,14 +439,32 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Tests
         public void DecodesStringLength_GreaterThanLimit_Error()
         {
             var encoded = _literalHeaderFieldWithoutIndexingNewName
-                .Concat(new byte[] { 0xff, 0x82, 0x1f }) // 4097 encoded with 7-bit prefix
+                .Concat(new byte[] { 0xff, 0x82, 0x3f }) // 8193 encoded with 7-bit prefix
                 .ToArray();
 
             var exception = Assert.Throws<HPackDecodingException>(() => _decoder.Decode(new ReadOnlySequence<byte>(encoded), endHeaders: true, handler: this));
-            Assert.Equal(CoreStrings.FormatHPackStringLengthTooLarge(4097, HPackDecoder.MaxStringOctets), exception.Message);
+            Assert.Equal(CoreStrings.FormatHPackStringLengthTooLarge(MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize + 1, MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize), exception.Message);
             Assert.Empty(_decodedHeaders);
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public void DecodesStringLength_LimitConfigurable()
+        {
+            var decoder = new HPackDecoder(DynamicTableInitialMaxSize, MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize + 1);
+            var string8193 = new string('a', MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize + 1);
+
+            var encoded = _literalHeaderFieldWithoutIndexingNewName
+                .Concat(new byte[] { 0x7f, 0x82, 0x3f }) // 8193 encoded with 7-bit prefix, no Huffman encoding
+                .Concat(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(string8193))
+                .Concat(new byte[] { 0x7f, 0x82, 0x3f }) // 8193 encoded with 7-bit prefix, no Huffman encoding
+                .Concat(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(string8193))
+                .ToArray();
+
+            decoder.Decode(new ReadOnlySequence<byte>(encoded), endHeaders: true, handler: this);
+
+            Assert.Equal(string8193, _decodedHeaders[string8193]);
+        }
+
         public static readonly TheoryData<byte[]> _incompleteHeaderBlockData = new TheoryData<byte[]>
         {
             // Indexed Header Field Representation - incomplete index encoding
diff --git a/test/Kestrel.Core.Tests/KestrelServerLimitsTests.cs b/test/Kestrel.Core.Tests/KestrelServerLimitsTests.cs
index cf46717f85..17ca8d1967 100644
--- a/test/Kestrel.Core.Tests/KestrelServerLimitsTests.cs
+++ b/test/Kestrel.Core.Tests/KestrelServerLimitsTests.cs
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Tests
         }
 
         [Theory]
-        [InlineData(1 << 14 - 1)]
+        [InlineData((1 << 14) - 1)]
         [InlineData(1 << 24)]
         [InlineData(-1)]
         public void Http2MaxFrameSizeInvalid(int value)
@@ -331,12 +331,29 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Tests
         }
 
         [Theory]
-        [InlineData(4097)]
+        [InlineData(int.MinValue)]
         [InlineData(-1)]
+        [InlineData(0)]
         public void Http2HeaderTableSizeInvalid(int value)
         {
-            var ex = Assert.Throws<ArgumentOutOfRangeException>(() => new KestrelServerLimits().Http2.MaxFrameSize = value);
-            Assert.Contains("A value between", ex.Message);
+            var ex = Assert.Throws<ArgumentOutOfRangeException>(() => new KestrelServerLimits().Http2.HeaderTableSize = value);
+            Assert.StartsWith(CoreStrings.GreaterThanZeroRequired, ex.Message);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Http2MaxRequestHeaderFieldSizeDefault()
+        {
+            Assert.Equal(8192, new KestrelServerLimits().Http2.MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(int.MinValue)]
+        [InlineData(-1)]
+        [InlineData(0)]
+        public void Http2MaxRequestHeaderFieldSizeInvalid(int value)
+        {
+            var ex = Assert.Throws<ArgumentOutOfRangeException>(() => new KestrelServerLimits().Http2.MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize = value);
+            Assert.StartsWith(CoreStrings.GreaterThanZeroRequired, ex.Message);
         }
 
         public static TheoryData<TimeSpan> TimeoutValidData => new TheoryData<TimeSpan>
diff --git a/test/Kestrel.InMemory.FunctionalTests/Http2/Http2TestBase.cs b/test/Kestrel.InMemory.FunctionalTests/Http2/Http2TestBase.cs
index ed1fecc8d9..4023b5080f 100644
--- a/test/Kestrel.InMemory.FunctionalTests/Http2/Http2TestBase.cs
+++ b/test/Kestrel.InMemory.FunctionalTests/Http2/Http2TestBase.cs
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Tests
 {
     public class Http2TestBase : TestApplicationErrorLoggerLoggedTest, IDisposable, IHttpHeadersHandler
     {
-        protected static readonly string _4kHeaderValue = new string('a', HPackDecoder.MaxStringOctets);
+        protected static readonly int MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize = 8192;
+        protected static readonly string _4kHeaderValue = new string('a', 4096);
 
         protected static readonly IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>> _browserRequestHeaders = new[]
         {
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.Tests
             );
 
             _pair = DuplexPipe.CreateConnectionPair(inputPipeOptions, outputPipeOptions);
-            _hpackDecoder = new HPackDecoder((int)_clientSettings.HeaderTableSize);
+            _hpackDecoder = new HPackDecoder((int)_clientSettings.HeaderTableSize, MaxRequestHeaderFieldSize);
 
             _noopApplication = context => Task.CompletedTask;