CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-111101

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/1.1 chunked body reader allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server memory and CPU via a request body made of many 1-byte chunks. The reader keeps every chunk as a separate term without limiting the number of chunks.

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 limiting the number of chunks.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the HTTP/1.1 chunked body reader of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server memory and CPU via a request body made of many 1-byte chunks. The chunked reader in lib/bandit/http1/socket.ex keeps every chunk as its own list cell and binary term until IO.iodata_to_binary/1 joins them, and nothing limits the number of chunks. The :length option of read_body/2 counts only data bytes, so tiny chunks cost far more memory than their payload: 48 MB of 1-byte chunks grew one handler process to about 500 MB and took about 6 s of CPU. The route does not need to read the body, because on keep-alive connections ensure_completed/1 drains unread bodies through the same reader. This issue affects bandit: from 0.1.0 before 1.14.0.

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