HTTP/1.1 chunked request bodies made of 1-byte chunks amplify memory use in Bandit
What fixes it
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Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the HTTP/1.1 chunked body reader of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server memory and CPU via a request body made of many 1-byte chunks.
The chunked reader in lib/bandit/http1/socket.ex keeps every chunk as its own list cell and binary term until IO.iodata_to_binary/1 joins them, and nothing limits the number of chunks. The :length option of read_body/2 counts only data bytes, so tiny chunks cost far more memory than their payload: 48 MB of 1-byte chunks grew one handler process to about 500 MB and took about 6 s of CPU. The route does not need to read the body, because on keep-alive connections ensure_completed/1 drains unread bodies through the same reader.
This issue affects bandit: from 0.1.0 before 1.14.0.
Text from CVE List
Affected versions 2
- banditaffected: 0.1.0 before 1.14.0CVE List
- banditaffected: 7201270c34b90f6c9e15c0386c2bb802c0c72ab4 before 220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7aCVE List
References 5
- github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/7201270c34b90f6c9e15c0386c2bb802c0c72ab4Fixvia CVE List
- github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7aFixvia CVE List
- github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-jwh3-j29h-qfmwAdvisoryvia CVE List
- cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-111101.htmlReferencevia CVE List
- osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-111101Referencevia CVE List