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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | bandit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | bandit | No fix yet | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hex | bandit | >= 0.3.1, < 1.14.0 | 1.14.0 | EEF-CVE-2026-108525 |
References
- HTTP/2 inbound flow control is not enforced, letting a client queue unbounded DATA in stream processes in Bandit vendor-advisory related
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-108525 related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-108525 related
- Introducing commit c8dc1e9 in mtrudel/bandit related
- Fix commit 220b9df in mtrudel/bandit patch