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CVE-2026-108529EUVD-2026-109829

SETTINGS and stream-0 WINDOW_UPDATE frames trigger quadratic work over blocked streams in Bandit

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.14.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Bandit, an Elixir web server for HTTP/2 connections, is affected. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can open many streams and send small, cheap frames to force the server to use excessive CPU, which can slow or stall the server for other users.

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Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in the HTTP/2 implementation of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server CPU via small SETTINGS or connection-level WINDOW_UPDATE frames. The attacker opens thousands of streams whose responses block on the connection send window, then sends cheap frames that each make the server walk the whole queue of blocked sends. In the reporter's run, with 3,000 blocked streams a single 9-byte SETTINGS frame took 133 ms to process. do_pending_sends/2 in lib/bandit/http2/connection.ex retries every queued send and, before each retry, removes that entry from the queue with List.delete/2, so one frame costs O(n²) list operations for n blocked streams. max_concurrent_streams defaults to :infinity, so the attacker chooses n. This issue affects bandit: from 0.3.4 before 1.14.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • bandit

    From 0.3.4 · fixed in 1.14.0

  • mtrudel/bandit

    From 6feadb31189d18b7dcda6c663112cd3bbaf63a46 · fixed in 220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a

References 5

GitHub · mtrudel/bandit

cna.erlef.org

osv.dev