Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting bandit package, versions >=1.4.0 <1.11.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
1.41% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-HEX-BANDIT-16679449
  • published14 May 2026
  • disclosed13 May 2026
  • creditPeter Ullrich

Introduced: 13 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-39803  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bandit to version 1.11.1 or higher.

Overview

bandit is a HTTP server for Plug and WebSock apps.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to the read_data function in the HTTP/1 chunked body reader ignoring the configured length cap when processing chunked request bodies. An attacker can cause memory exhaustion and process termination by sending a single HTTP/1 POST request with Transfer-Encoding: chunked and an arbitrarily large body to any endpoint.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1