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 number of continuation frames without ever setting fin=1 grows BEAM heap linearly until the OS or a supervisor kills the process.
Because the accumulation happens before WebSock.handle_in/2 is called, the application has no opportunity to interpose a size check. Phoenix Channels and LiveView both run over WebSock on Bandit, so a stock Phoenix application exposes this surface as soon as it accepts socket connections.
This issue affects bandit: from 0.5.0 before 1.11.0.
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Fri, 01 May 2026 21:00:00 +0000
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| Description | 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 number of continuation frames without ever setting fin=1 grows BEAM heap linearly until the OS or a supervisor kills the process. Because the accumulation happens before WebSock.handle_in/2 is called, the application has no opportunity to interpose a size check. Phoenix Channels and LiveView both run over WebSock on Bandit, so a stock Phoenix application exposes this surface as soon as it accepts socket connections. This issue affects bandit: from 0.5.0 before 1.11.0. | |
| Title | WebSocket fragmented message reassembly unbounded in bandit | |
| First Time appeared |
Mtrudel
Mtrudel bandit |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
| 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: 2026-05-01T20:34:17.014Z
Updated: 2026-05-01T20:34:17.014Z
Reserved: 2026-04-29T18:06:33.251Z
Link: CVE-2026-42786
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-01T21:16:17.347
Modified: 2026-05-01T21:16:17.347
Link: CVE-2026-42786
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