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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-39804 EEF-CVE-2026-39804EUVD-2026-26711GHSA-frh3-6pv6-rc8j

WebSocket permessage-deflate inflate has no output-size cap in bandit

Published May 1, 2026 · Updated May 27, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion when WebSocket permessage-deflate compression is enabled.

'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.PerMessageDeflate':inflate/2 in lib/bandit/websocket/permessage_deflate.ex calls :zlib.inflate/2 with no output-size cap, then materializes the entire decompressed payload as a single binary via IO.iodata_to_binary/1. The websocket_options.max_frame_size option only bounds the on-the-wire (compressed) frame size, not the decompressed output. A high-ratio compressed frame (e.g. uniform data at ~1024:1 ratio) can stay well under any wire-size limit while forcing GiB-scale heap allocations in the connection process before any application code runs.

An unauthenticated attacker who can open a WebSocket connection can send a single such frame to exhaust the BEAM node's memory and trigger an OOM kill.

This vulnerability requires both Bandit's server-level websocket_options.compress and the per-upgrade compress: true option passed to WebSockAdapter.upgrade/4 to be enabled. Stock Phoenix and LiveView applications are not affected as they default to compress: false.

This issue affects bandit: from 0.5.9 before 1.11.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mtrudel bandit 0.5.9 – < 1.11.0 1.11.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex bandit >= 0.5.9, < 1.11.0 1.11.0 EEF-CVE-2026-39804
Hex bandit >= 0.5.8, < 1.11.0 1.11.0 GHSA-frh3-6pv6-rc8j

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