# CVE-2026-116078: HTTP/2 request bodies made of 1-byte DATA frames amplify memory use in Bandit

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-112087
- 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
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.14.1
- Published: 2026-10-28 · Updated: 2026-10-28

## Summary

Bandit, an Elixir web server that supports HTTP/2, is affected when an application reads request bodies, including any route that uses Plug.Parsers. An unauthenticated remote attacker sending request bodies split into many 1-byte HTTP/2 data frames across many concurrent streams can cause the server to consume large amounts of memory, potentially exhausting it.

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

## Affected

- bandit: from 0.3.1, fixed in 1.14.1
- mtrudel/bandit: version range not reported

## Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the HTTP/2 request body reader of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server memory via a request body sent as many 1-byte DATA frames. do_read_data/5 in lib/bandit/http2/stream.ex keeps every DATA frame payload as its own list element until the read returns. The :length option of read_body/2 counts body bytes, not frames, so a body of 1-byte frames costs a list cell and a binary term per byte. Interleaving the frames across up to 500 concurrent streams per connection keeps each stream consuming its frames as they arrive; in the reporter's test, 100 streams held 25 to 40 MiB of stream process memory for 5 MB sent. Only routes whose Plug reads the request body are affected, which includes any route behind Plug.Parsers. This issue affects bandit: from 0.3.1 before 1.14.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on bandit, mtrudel/bandit, upgrade to a fixed version (1.14.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-pxjf-g536-7r93
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-116078.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-116078
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/c8dc1e97050cf359f61ed6cdd110f3cdaf1d6f5f
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/327bb02ff84171237e1aeff787930debd16155ee

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