CVE-2026-109584

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.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
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

Configurations

No configuration.

History

26 Oct 2026, 14:16

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-10-26 14:16

Updated : 2026-10-26 16:59

NVD link : CVE-2026-109584

Mitre link : CVE-2026-109584

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-109584

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-409

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

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