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HIGHCVE-2026-42786Published Modified CNA EEF

CVE-2026-42786: WebSocket fragmented message reassembly unbounded in bandit

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion. The fragment reassembly path in 'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection':handle_frame/3 in lib/bandit/websocket/connection.ex appends every incoming Continuation{fin: false} frame's payload to a per-connection iolist with no cumulative size cap. The existing max_frame_size option only bounds individual frames; a peer that streams an unbounded number of continuation frames without ever setting fin=1 grows BEAM heap linearly until the OS or a supervisor kills the process. Because the accumulation happens before WebSock.handle_in/2 is called, the application has no opportunity to interpose a size check. Phoenix Channels and LiveView both run over WebSock on Bandit, so a stock Phoenix application exposes this surface as soon as it accepts socket connections. This issue affects bandit: from 0.5.0 before 1.11.0.

Metrics

CVSS v4.0
8.7
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
1.11.0
Affected Products
2

Fix available

1.11.021612c7c7b1ce43eccd36d3af3a2299d23513667
Patch commits
Affected packages
  • mtrudel / bandit
    < 1.11.0 (from 0.5.0)
  • mtrudel / bandit
    < 21612c7c7b1ce43eccd36d3af3a2299d23513667 (from 8909391f486d42138c5308410bc5ea49a65f4d46)
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