# CVE-2026-114216: Chunk extensions accept bare LF and CR, enabling request smuggling in Bandit

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-109820
- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/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

## Affected

- bandit: from 1.12.4, fixed in 1.14.0
- mtrudel/bandit: from c31e9e3c76dcbfc239a96eabed5341ced7885ae5, fixed in 220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a

## Description

Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling') vulnerability in the HTTP/1.1 chunked body reader of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to smuggle a second request past a front-end proxy via a chunk extension that contains a bare LF. The chunked reader in lib/bandit/http1/socket.ex takes the chunk-size line to be everything up to the first CRLF and discards everything after ; without checking it against the RFC 9112 chunk-ext grammar, so bare LF, bare CR and other control bytes pass. A proxy that ends the size line at a bare LF reads 2;\nxx\r\n40\r\n... as one request whose second chunk holds a GET /admin, while Bandit ends the body early and dispatches GET /admin as a separate pipelined request. Deployments without such a proxy in front of Bandit are not affected. This issue affects bandit: from 1.12.4 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-w5wc-g2hc-g7m2
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-114216.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-114216
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/c31e9e3c76dcbfc239a96eabed5341ced7885ae5
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a

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