Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to pin HTTP/2 stream processes indefinitely via a trickle of small WINDOW_UPDATE frames. A stream whose response outruns the connection or stream send window blocks until the peer grants more window, and each block carries a 15 second deadline. Both deadlines restart whenever the peer makes partial progress. Bandit.HTTP2.Connection.finish_data/5 re-queues a partially advanced send in pending_sends with a fresh expires_at, so every WINDOW_UPDATE on stream 0, and every SETTINGS frame, resets the clock. Bandit.HTTP2.Stream.send_data/3 recurses on each stream WINDOW_UPDATE and re-arms a fresh after read_timeout. A peer that grants a few bytes every few seconds keeps the blocked stream process, its Plug state and any resource it holds mid-response alive for as long as it keeps dripping, and repeats this across streams and connections to exhaust server processes and memory.
The two paths are independent. The stream-level block is reached on its own by widening the connection window with a large WINDOW_UPDATE on stream 0 and shrinking the per-stream window with a small SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE, so closing only the connection-level path leaves it exploitable.
This issue affects bandit: from 1.4.0 before 1.13.0.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mtrudel | bandit | 1.4.0 – < 1.13.0 | 1.13.0 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hex | bandit | >= 1.4.0, < 1.13.0 | 1.13.0 | EEF-CVE-2026-105659 |
References
- GitHub Advisory related vendor-advisory
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-105659 related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-105659 related
- Introducing commit fff06ef in mtrudel/bandit related
- Fix commit d88b219 in mtrudel/bandit patch