# CVE-2026-110499: Client-chosen HPACK encoder table size is applied uncapped, growing per-connection state with every response in Bandit

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-109827
- 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'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.

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

## Affected

- bandit: from 0.3.6, fixed in 1.14.0
- mtrudel/bandit: from 0e68313fab9d204257ebad5c447e4cd9cea8e0ea, fixed in 220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a

## Description

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.

## 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-47x4-3fxf-82fr
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-110499.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-110499
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/0e68313fab9d204257ebad5c447e4cd9cea8e0ea
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a

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