Description
Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows HTTP request smuggling via duplicate Content-Length headers.
'Elixir.Bandit.Headers':get_content_length/1 in lib/bandit/headers.ex uses List.keyfind/3, which returns only the first matching header. When a request contains two Content-Length headers with different values, Bandit silently accepts it, uses the first value to read the body, and dispatches the remaining bytes as a second pipelined request on the same keep-alive connection. RFC 9112 §6.3 requires recipients to treat this as an unrecoverable framing error.
When Bandit sits behind a proxy that picks the last Content-Length value and forwards the request rather than rejecting it, an unauthenticated attacker can smuggle requests past edge WAF rules, path-based ACLs, rate limiting, and audit logging.
This issue affects bandit: before 1.11.0.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mtrudel | bandit | 0.1.0 – < 1.11.0 | 1.11.0 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hex | bandit | >= 0.1.0, < 1.11.0 | 1.11.0 | EEF-CVE-2026-39805 |
| Hex | bandit | < 1.11.0 | 1.11.0 | GHSA-c67r-gc9j-2qf7 |