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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-108525 EEF-CVE-2026-108525EUVD-2026-109818GHSA-c3g7-2pg5-qvwh

HTTP/2 inbound flow control is not enforced, letting a client queue unbounded DATA in stream processes in Bandit

Published Oct 26, 2026 · Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the HTTP/2 implementation of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server memory via DATA frames sent past the advertised receive window. The attacker requests a response larger than the 65,535-byte initial window and withholds WINDOW_UPDATE, so the stream process blocks while sending and stops reading, then floods small DATA frames on that stream. Every frame is queued in the stream's mailbox until the BEAM node runs out of memory.

Bandit.HTTP2.Connection.handle_frame/3 in lib/bandit/http2/connection.ex forwards each DATA frame to the stream process without consulting the receive window, and Bandit.HTTP2.FlowControl.compute_recv_window/2 replenishes the window as data arrives rather than as it is consumed, and never answers a violation with FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR.

This issue affects bandit: from 0.3.1 before 1.14.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mtrudel bandit 0.3.1 – < 1.14.0 1.14.0

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 bandit No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS bandit No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS bandit No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS bandit No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS bandit No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS bandit No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS bandit No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex bandit >= 0.3.1, < 1.14.0 1.14.0 EEF-CVE-2026-108525

References