Client-chosen HPACK encoder table size is applied uncapped, growing per-connection state with every response in Bandit
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- published
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- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 1.14.0
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: yes
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
Bandit, an Elixir web server's HTTP/2 implementation, is affected. A remote, unauthenticated client can abuse it by advertising a very large HPACK header table size, which makes the server hold growing per-connection memory and use increasing CPU time, potentially degrading or exhausting the server's resources.
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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.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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Affected versions
- bandit
From 0.3.6 · fixed in 1.14.0
- mtrudel/bandit
From 0e68313fab9d204257ebad5c447e4cd9cea8e0ea · fixed in 220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a