Bandit.Headers.parse_integer/2 in lib/bandit/headers.ex builds the number one digit at a time with no limit on the digit count, allocating a new bignum at each step, so one value costs time quadratic in its length. It runs on raw request input over HTTP/1 and HTTP/2, before any range check. Over HTTP/2, a 4,000-digit value can be stored once in the HPACK dynamic table and re-sent on each new stream for about one byte: 124 KB of traffic kept the server busy for 27.9 s.
This issue affects bandit: from 1.0.0-pre.7 before 1.14.0.
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Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in the header integer parser of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to consume server CPU via a content-length value or a Host or :authority port made of thousands of digits. Bandit.Headers.parse_integer/2 in lib/bandit/headers.ex builds the number one digit at a time with no limit on the digit count, allocating a new bignum at each step, so one value costs time quadratic in its length. It runs on raw request input over HTTP/1 and HTTP/2, before any range check. Over HTTP/2, a 4,000-digit value can be stored once in the HPACK dynamic table and re-sent on each new stream for about one byte: 124 KB of traffic kept the server busy for 27.9 s. This issue affects bandit: from 1.0.0-pre.7 before 1.14.0. | |
| Title | Quadratic bignum parsing of Content-Length and Host port values in Bandit | |
| First Time appeared |
Mtrudel
Mtrudel bandit |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-407 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products |
Mtrudel
Mtrudel bandit |
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cvssV4_0
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: EEF
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-26T15:35:51.556Z
Reserved: 2026-10-23T10:30:01.881Z
Link: CVE-2026-113436
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-26T14:16:28.680
Modified: 2026-10-26T14:16:28.680
Link: CVE-2026-113436
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