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.
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History
26 Oct 2026, 14:16
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Information
Published : 2026-10-26 14:16
Updated : 2026-10-26 16:59
NVD link : CVE-2026-115269
Mitre link : CVE-2026-115269
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-115269
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