Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the HTTP/2 request body reader of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to hold stream processes open indefinitely via WINDOW_UPDATE or empty SETTINGS frames sent while a Plug reads the request body. Bandit.HTTP2.Stream.do_read_data/4 in lib/bandit/http2/stream.ex waits for each frame with a fresh read_timeout. A stream WINDOW_UPDATE, or the zero-delta window update that every empty SETTINGS frame delivers to all streams, ends the wait without delivering any body data, and the loop starts a new full countdown. A client that sends one of these 9-byte frames before each countdown expires keeps read_body blocked, together with the stream process and whatever the application holds while reading, for as long as it likes. This issue affects bandit: from 1.4.0 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-2026-115269.html
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/fff06efe3be962b484bd4d3eb339372fda5a231f
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-p2qv-vx88-385x
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-115269