Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the WebSocket fragment reassembly of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server memory via a fragmented message made of many 1-byte continuation frames.
Bandit.WebSocket.Connection checks max_fragmented_message_size against the payload bytes received, but keeps every non-final continuation frame as a new list cell around its own binary, and nothing limits the number of fragments. A 1-byte fragment costs 7 bytes on the wire but about 150 to 170 bytes of server memory, so one connection can hold about 150 times the configured limit, roughly 1.2 to 1.4 GB at the default 8 MB. Ping frames between fragments keep the connection alive past the idle timeout.
This issue affects bandit: from 1.11.0 before 1.14.0.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mtrudel | bandit | 1.11.0 – < 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.
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 | >= 1.11.0, < 1.14.0 | 1.14.0 | EEF-CVE-2026-114213 |
References
- WebSocket 1-byte continuation frames bypass `max_fragmented_message_size` in Bandit vendor-advisory related
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-114213 related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-114213 related
- Introducing commit 21612c7 in mtrudel/bandit related
- Fix commit 220b9df in mtrudel/bandit patch