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CVE-2026-42786

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion. The fragment reassembly path in 'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection':handle_frame/3 in lib/bandit/websocket/connection.ex appends every incoming Continuation{fin: false} frame's payload to a per-connection iolist with no cumulative size cap. The existing max_frame_size option only bounds individual frames; a peer that streams an unbounded nu
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:de986a25866d35ad20c347ec8ecfd87e9a156ac9c166d1067900ea6a36717947
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c990591fe41889425af7f9a535ab69780f0f127968420c253528f7887a0fd509 · sha256:c9bcaae369babf1d… · /containers/cna/affected/1

{"collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected","modules":["'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection'"],"packageName":"bandit","packageURL":"pkg:hex/bandit","product":"bandit","programFiles":["lib/bandit/websocket/connection.ex"],"programRoutines":[{"name":"'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection':handle_frame/3"}],"repo":"https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit","vendor":"mtrudel","versions":[{"lessThan":"1.11.0","status":"affected","version":"0.5.0","versionType":"semver"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c990591fe41889425af7f9a535ab69780f0f127968420c253528f7887a0fd509 · sha256:c9bcaae369babf1d… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Affected products and versions

2 source assertions
{"collectionURL":"https://github.com","cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected","modules":["'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection'"],"packageName":"mtrudel/bandit","packageURL":"pkg:github/mtrudel/bandit","product":"bandit","programFiles":["lib/bandit/websocket/connection.ex"],"programRoutines":[{"name":"'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection':handle_frame/3"}],"repo":"https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit","vendor":"mtrudel","versions":[{"lessThan":"21612c7c7b1ce43eccd36d3af3a2299d23513667","status":"affected","version":"8909391f486d42138c5308410bc5ea49a65f4d46",…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c990591fe41889425af7f9a535ab69780f0f127968420c253528f7887a0fd509 · sha256:c9bcaae369babf1d… · /containers/cna/affected/1
{"collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected","modules":["'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection'"],"packageName":"bandit","packageURL":"pkg:hex/bandit","product":"bandit","programFiles":["lib/bandit/websocket/connection.ex"],"programRoutines":[{"name":"'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection':handle_frame/3"}],"repo":"https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit","vendor":"mtrudel","versions":[{"lessThan":"1.11.0","status":"affected","version":"0.5.0","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c990591fe41889425af7f9a535ab69780f0f127968420c253528f7887a0fd509 · sha256:c9bcaae369babf1d… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"NETWORK","baseScore":8.7,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"NONE","subAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","subConfidentialityImpact":"NONE","subIntegrityImpact":"NONE","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","vulnConfidentialityImpact":"NONE","vulnIntegrityImpact":"NONE"},"metric_type":"cvssV4_0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c990591fe41889425af7f9a535ab69780f0f127968420c253528f7887a0fd509 · sha256:c9bcaae369babf1d… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-770","description":"CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c990591fe41889425af7f9a535ab69780f0f127968420c253528f7887a0fd509 · sha256:c9bcaae369babf1d… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

5 source assertions
{"tags":["related"],"url":"https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-42786.html"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c990591fe41889425af7f9a535ab69780f0f127968420c253528f7887a0fd509 · sha256:c9bcaae369babf1d… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"tags":["patch"],"url":"https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/21612c7c7b1ce43eccd36d3af3a2299d23513667"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c990591fe41889425af7f9a535ab69780f0f127968420c253528f7887a0fd509 · sha256:c9bcaae369babf1d… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"tags":["vendor-advisory","related"],"url":"https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-pf94-94m9-536p"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c990591fe41889425af7f9a535ab69780f0f127968420c253528f7887a0fd509 · sha256:c9bcaae369babf1d… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"tags":["exploit"],"url":"https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-pf94-94m9-536p"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c990591fe41889425af7f9a535ab69780f0f127968420c253528f7887a0fd509 · sha256:c9bcaae369babf1d… · /containers/adp/0/references/0
{"tags":["related"],"url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-42786"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c990591fe41889425af7f9a535ab69780f0f127968420c253528f7887a0fd509 · sha256:c9bcaae369babf1d… · /containers/cna/references/2

Attribution and limitations

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