CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-39805
6.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- CVSS 4.0 (6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db)
- 6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/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-444
Description
Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows HTTP request smuggling via duplicate Content-Length headers.
'Elixir.Bandit.Headers':get_content_length/1 in lib/bandit/headers.ex uses List.keyfind/3, which returns only the first matching header. When a request contains two Content-Length headers with different values, Bandit silently accepts it, uses the first value to read the body, and dispatches the remaining bytes as a second pipelined request on the same keep-alive connection. RFC 9112 §6.3 requires recipients to treat this as an unrecoverable framing error.
When Bandit sits behind a proxy that picks the last Content-Length value and forwards the request rather than rejecting it, an unauthenticated attacker can smuggle requests past edge WAF rules, path-based ACLs, rate limiting, and audit logging.
This issue affects bandit: before 1.11.0.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests weakness
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-39805.html cna.erlef.org
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/f2ca636eb6df385219957e8934e9fc6efa1630d1 github.com
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-c67r-gc9j-2qf7 github.com
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-39805 osv.dev
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-c67r-gc9j-2qf7 github.com