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HIGHCVE-2026-39803Published Modified CNA EEF

CVE-2026-39803: HTTP/1 chunked body reader ignores length cap in bandit

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion. The chunked clause of 'Elixir.Bandit.HTTP1.Socket':read_data/2 in lib/bandit/http1/socket.ex ignores the caller-supplied :length option when reading HTTP/1 chunked request bodies. Instead of capping the accumulated body at the configured limit (e.g. Plug.Parsers' default 8 MB), do_read_chunked_data!/5 buffers every received chunk into an iolist unconditionally and materializes the entire body as a single binary. The function always returns {:ok, body, ...}, so callers cannot interpose a 413 response. Because Plug.Parsers runs before routing and authentication in the standard Phoenix endpoint, an unauthenticated attacker needs no valid route or credentials. Sending a single Transfer-Encoding: chunked POST request with an arbitrarily large body to any path causes the BEAM process to exhaust available memory and be terminated by the OS OOM killer. The content-length path in the same function correctly enforces the limit and is not affected. This issue affects bandit: from 1.4.0 before 1.11.1.

Metrics

CVSS v4.0
8.7
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
1.11.1
Affected Products
2

Fix available

1.11.1ae3520dfdbfab115c638f8c7f6f6b805db34e1ab
Patch commits
Affected packages
  • mtrudel / bandit
    < 1.11.1 (from 1.4.0)
  • mtrudel / bandit
    < ae3520dfdbfab115c638f8c7f6f6b805db34e1ab (from 903e209a521bc216b9f9065c01ae9a0cac2d5a10)
CVSS Vector
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
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