Description
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in the HTTP/2 implementation of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server memory via a small HPACK-compressed HEADERS block. The block stores one large cookie value in the HPACK dynamic table and then references it tens of thousands of times with 1-byte indexed fields. In the reporter's run, a 49 KB block made a server with default settings allocate a 183 MB cookie binary before any application code ran, and every concurrent stream can repeat the cost.
Bandit.HTTP2.Connection caps only the compressed block (max_header_block_size), and its check of the decoded list against max_header_list_size never fires because that setting defaults to :infinity. combine_cookie_crumbs/1 in lib/bandit/http2/stream.ex then joins every crumb into one binary.
This issue affects bandit: from 0.3.3 before 1.14.0.
Metrics
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XWeakness enumeration
Affected software
Source: the vendor's advisory (CNA). NVD analysis pending.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| mtrudel | bandit | >= 0.3.3, < 1.14.0 |
| mtrudel | bandit | >= 44bf969cd59851622fb6ee4d16227fbc39a77fb4, < 220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a |
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-109584.html
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/44bf969cd59851622fb6ee4d16227fbc39a77fb4
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-7gfj-7gvq-3xqj
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-109584
Timeline
- Published
- Oct 26, 2026
- Last modified
- Oct 26, 2026
- NVD status
- Awaiting Analysis