CVE-2026-111103 PUBLISHED

HTTP/2 StreamError recovery rolls back connection state and bypasses per-connection limits in Bandit

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 23.10.2026 Published: 26.10.2026 Updated: 26.10.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor mtrudel
Product bandit
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1.9.0 to 1.14.0 (excl.)
Vendor mtrudel
Product bandit
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3ad49c80c268891e7cc412e69649115456638e59 to 220b9dfd27f9a21305be2afc75cbe585ddc24e7a (excl.)

Workarounds

Disable HTTP/2 with http_2_options: [enabled: false], so that the vulnerable HTTP/2 handler never runs.

Credits

  • Peter Ullrich reporter
  • Mat Trudel remediation developer
  • Jonatan Männchen / EEF analyst

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-460 Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception CWE

Impacts

  • An unauthenticated client can run more concurrent Plug calls on one HTTP/2 connection than the configured max_concurrent_streams allows (five times the limit in the reporter's test), tying up the server processes, CPU and memory the limit is meant to cap. Servers that serve HTTP/2 with a finite max_concurrent_streams are affected.