CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-115269

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

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the HTTP/2 request body reader of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to hold stream processes open indefinitely via WINDOW_UPDATE or empty SETTINGS frames sent while a Plug reads the request body. Affects bandit from 1.4.0 before 1.14.0.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can keep stream processes and application resources blocked, causing resource exhaustion and denial of service.

Recommendation

Upgrade bandit to 1.14.0 or later and consider timeouts and HTTP/2 stream limits.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the HTTP/2 request body reader of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to hold stream processes open indefinitely via WINDOW_UPDATE or empty SETTINGS frames sent while a Plug reads the request body. Bandit.HTTP2.Stream.do_read_data/4 in lib/bandit/http2/stream.ex waits for each frame with a fresh read_timeout. A stream WINDOW_UPDATE, or the zero-delta window update that every empty SETTINGS frame delivers to all streams, ends the wait without delivering any body data, and the loop starts a new full countdown. A client that sends one of these 9-byte frames before each countdown expires keeps read_body blocked, together with the stream process and whatever the application holds while reading, for as long as it likes. This issue affects bandit: from 1.4.0 before 1.14.0.

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