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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-39807 EEF-CVE-2026-39807EUVD-2026-26714GHSA-375f-4r2h-f99j

Client-supplied URI scheme trusted without transport verification in bandit

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

Description

Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated transport-state spoofing on plaintext HTTP connections.

'Elixir.Bandit.Pipeline':determine_scheme/2 in lib/bandit/pipeline.ex returns the client-supplied URI scheme verbatim, ignoring the transport's secure? flag. HTTP/1.1 absolute-form request targets (e.g. GET https://victim/path HTTP/1.1) and the HTTP/2 :scheme pseudo-header are both attacker-controlled strings that flow through this function. Over a plaintext TCP connection, a client can declare https and Bandit will set conn.scheme = :https even though no TLS was negotiated.

Downstream Plug consumers that branch on conn.scheme are silently misled: Plug.SSL's already-secure branch skips its HTTP→HTTPS redirect, cookies emitted with secure: true are sent over plaintext, audit logs record requests as having arrived over HTTPS, and CSRF/SameSite gating may make incorrect decisions.

This issue affects bandit: from 1.0.0 before 1.11.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mtrudel bandit 1.0.0 – < 1.11.0 1.11.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex bandit >= 1.0.0, < 1.11.0 1.11.0 EEF-CVE-2026-39807

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