# CVE-2026-108529: SETTINGS and stream-0 WINDOW\_UPDATE frames trigger quadratic work over blocked streams in Bandit

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-109829
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.14.0
- Published: 2026-10-26 · Updated: 2026-10-26

## 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.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- bandit: from 0.3.4, fixed in 1.14.0
- mtrudel/bandit: from 6feadb31189d18b7dcda6c663112cd3bbaf63a46, fixed in 220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on bandit, mtrudel/bandit, upgrade to a fixed version (1.14.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-j363-h72p-296m
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-108529.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-108529
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/6feadb31189d18b7dcda6c663112cd3bbaf63a46
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a

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