# CVE-2026-75484: HTTP/2 header field values containing CR, LF or NUL are passed to the application unvalidated in Bandit

- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.12.5
- Published: 2026-08-20 · Updated: 2026-08-21

## Affected

- bandit: from 1.4.0, fixed in 1.12.5
- mtrudel/bandit: version range not reported

## Description

Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to smuggle CR, LF, or NUL characters into application-visible request headers via HTTP/2. Bandit.HTTP2.Stream.read_headers/1 validates pseudo-header placement and uniqueness, header-name casing, connection-specific headers, the te value, and content-length, but never checks field values. Because HPACK carries arbitrary octets, a HEADERS block whose field values contain \r, \n, or \0 decodes without error and the values land in conn.req_headers unchanged. The HTTP/1 path already rejects the same octets; HTTP/2 did not. Bandit itself is not a sink for the injected bytes: its own logging uses fixed strings or inspect, and HTTP/2 response headers are HPACK-encoded and separately rejected by Plug's put_resp_header, so response splitting is not reachable through this path. The risk is entirely in how a downstream application consumes header values, such as appending one verbatim to a plain-text log or concatenating it into an upstream request. A related gap bundled in the same fix: only :method, :scheme, and :path were checked for at most one occurrence; a duplicate :authority pseudo-header was accepted, with the first instance silently winning as conn.host while a conflicting value remained visible to the application. This issue affects bandit: from 1.4.0 before 1.12.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on bandit, mtrudel/bandit, upgrade to a fixed version (1.12.5) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-x3gh-xhj4-3vq8
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-75484.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-75484
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/d38cf046c9a3cae4d0f88001c2ceb4143f86366b

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