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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-42786 EEF-CVE-2026-42786EUVD-2026-26715GHSA-pf94-94m9-536p

WebSocket fragmented message reassembly unbounded 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.

The fragment reassembly path in 'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection':handle_frame/3 in lib/bandit/websocket/connection.ex appends every incoming Continuation{fin: false} frame's payload to a per-connection iolist with no cumulative size cap. The existing max_frame_size option only bounds individual frames; a peer that streams an unbounded number of continuation frames without ever setting fin=1 grows BEAM heap linearly until the OS or a supervisor kills the process.

Because the accumulation happens before WebSock.handle_in/2 is called, the application has no opportunity to interpose a size check. Phoenix Channels and LiveView both run over WebSock on Bandit, so a stock Phoenix application exposes this surface as soon as it accepts socket connections.

This issue affects bandit: from 0.5.0 before 1.11.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mtrudel bandit 0.5.0 – < 1.11.0 1.11.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex bandit >= 0.5.0, < 1.11.0 1.11.0 EEF-CVE-2026-42786

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