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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-111103 EEF-CVE-2026-111103EUVD-2026-109825GHSA-2238-pgfc-w82m

HTTP/2 StreamError recovery rolls back connection state and bypasses per-connection limits in Bandit

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

Description

Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception vulnerability in the HTTP/2 handler of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass per-connection resource limits via a single TCP write that carries several frames, one of which raises a stream error.

When a frame raises StreamError partway through a chunk, Bandit.HTTP2.Handler.handle_data/3 sends RST_STREAM and continues with the connection state from before the chunk, dropping the rest of it. Streams opened by earlier frames in the chunk keep running their Plug calls, but the stream counts, last_stream_id, the rapid-reset timestamps, the HPACK decoder state and the buffer roll back, so max_concurrent_streams, max_requests and the rapid-reset limiter never see those streams. A client that sends one HEADERS frame more than max_concurrent_streams in each write has the extra refused and the others forgotten: with a limit of 10, five such writes run 50 Plug calls at once.

This issue affects bandit: from 1.9.0 before 1.14.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mtrudel bandit 1.9.0 – < 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 >= 1.9.0, < 1.14.0 1.14.0 EEF-CVE-2026-111103

References