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 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.

CVSS 4.0

8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS

0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-26)

CWE

CWE-770

Published

2026-05-01

Modified

2026-10-26

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-26

References

• https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-42786.html
• https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/21612c7c7b1ce43eccd36d3af3a2299d23513667
• https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-pf94-94m9-536p
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-42786
• https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-pf94-94m9-536p

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