Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the WebSocket fragment reassembly of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server memory via a fragmented message made of many 1-byte continuation frames. Bandit.WebSocket.Connection checks max_fragmented_message_size against the payload bytes received, but keeps every non-final continuation frame as a new list cell around its own binary, and nothing limits the number of fragments. A 1-byte fragment costs 7 bytes on the wire but about 150 to 170 bytes of server memory, so one connection can hold about 150 times the configured limit, roughly 1.2 to 1.4 GB at the default 8 MB. Ping frames between fragments keep the connection alive past the idle timeout. This issue affects bandit: from 1.11.0 before 1.14.0.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 6
- StatusAwaiting Analysis → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-26 15:35
- StatusPublished → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-26 16:59
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-26 15:35
- StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-26 16:17
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-26 13:30
- First seenCVSS 8.7NVD modified 2026-10-26 14:16
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 5
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-114213.html
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/21612c7c7b1ce43eccd36d3af3a2299d23513667
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-cpx7-qf6w-jc63
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-114213