CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-110499

HighCVSS 8.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.60%

49th percentile - higher than 49% of all known CVEs

Summary

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability in Bandit's HTTP/2 implementation allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to grow per-connection memory and CPU cost without bound via a large SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE. The HPACK encoder table is resized to the client-advertised size without a server-side cap, causing O(N²) CPU cost for N responses.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely exhaust server resources, causing a denial of service for applications using Bandit.

Recommendation

Update Bandit to version 1.14.0 or later, which includes a fix capping the HPACK table size on the server side.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the HTTP/2 implementation of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to grow per-connection memory and CPU cost without bound via a large SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE. Bandit resizes its HPACK encoder table to whatever size the client advertises, up to 2^32-1 bytes, and indexes response headers into it. Because responses carry distinct values such as date or content-length, nothing is evicted and the table grows with every response for the life of the connection, while each lookup scans it linearly. The SETTINGS handling in Bandit.HTTP2.Connection (lib/bandit/http2/connection.ex) passes remote_settings.header_table_size to HPAX.resize/2 with no server-side cap, and encode_headers encodes every response header as :store. Serving N responses on one connection therefore costs O(N²) CPU in the connection process. This issue affects bandit: from 0.3.6 before 1.14.0.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS