CVE-2026-111103

HTTP/2 StreamError recovery rolls back connection state and bypasses per-connection limits in Bandit

State
Published
Severity
8.2 High
Published
Oct 26, 2026
Updated
Oct 26, 2026
Reserved
Oct 23, 2026

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Description

Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception vulnerability in the HTTP/2 handler of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass per-connection resource limits via a single TCP write that carries several frames, one of which raises a stream error.

When a frame raises StreamError partway through a chunk, Bandit.HTTP2.Handler.handle_data/3 sends RST_STREAM and continues with the connection state from before the chunk, dropping the rest of it. Streams opened by earlier frames in the chunk keep running their Plug calls, but the stream counts, last_stream_id, the rapid-reset timestamps, the HPACK decoder state and the buffer roll back, so max_concurrent_streams, max_requests and the rapid-reset limiter never see those streams. A client that sends one HEADERS frame more than max_concurrent_streams in each write has the extra refused and the others forgotten: with a limit of 10, five such writes run 50 Plug calls at once.

This issue affects bandit: from 1.9.0 before 1.14.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.2 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NEEF

Weaknesses

  • CWE-460 Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception

Affected Products

ProductVersions
banditmtrudel
  • 1.9.0 to before 1.14.0Affected
banditmtrudel
  • 3ad49c80c268891e7cc412e69649115456638e59 to before 220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7aAffected

References

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