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.
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Vendor Workaround
Disable HTTP/2 with http_2_options: [enabled: false], so that the vulnerable HTTP/2 handler never runs.
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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. | |
| Title | HTTP/2 StreamError recovery rolls back connection state and bypasses per-connection limits in Bandit | |
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Mtrudel bandit |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-460 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Mtrudel bandit |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: EEF
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-26T15:35:51.229Z
Reserved: 2026-10-23T10:30:01.888Z
Link: CVE-2026-111103
Updated: 2026-10-26T15:32:41.231Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-26T14:16:27.450
Modified: 2026-10-26T16:59:16.113
Link: CVE-2026-111103
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-10-26T15:45:12Z
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CWE-460
Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception