CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-116078
8.7 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-10-28
- Last modified
- 2026-10-28
- Assigner
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- CVSS 4.0 (6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db)
- 8.7 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the HTTP/2 request body reader of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server memory via a request body sent as many 1-byte DATA frames.
do_read_data/5 in lib/bandit/http2/stream.ex keeps every DATA frame payload as its own list element until the read returns. The :length option of read_body/2 counts body bytes, not frames, so a body of 1-byte frames costs a list cell and a binary term per byte. Interleaving the frames across up to 500 concurrent streams per connection keeps each stream consuming its frames as they arrive; in the reporter's test, 100 streams held 25 to 40 MiB of stream process memory for 5 MB sent. Only routes whose Plug reads the request body are affected, which includes any route behind Plug.Parsers.
This issue affects bandit: from 0.3.1 before 1.14.1.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-116078.html cna.erlef.org
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/327bb02ff84171237e1aeff787930debd16155ee github.com
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/c8dc1e97050cf359f61ed6cdd110f3cdaf1d6f5f github.com
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-pxjf-g536-7r93 github.com
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-116078 osv.dev