HTTP/1.1 chunked request bodies made of 1-byte chunks amplify memory use in Bandit
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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Vendor Workaround
From 0.7.0, a server whose clients and proxies all speak HTTP/2 can disable HTTP/1 with http_1_options: [enabled: false], so that the vulnerable chunked body reader never runs.
No CVSS v3.1
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.602% probability within 30 days)
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| Description | Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the HTTP/1.1 chunked body reader of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server memory and CPU via a request body made of many 1-byte chunks. The chunked reader in lib/bandit/http1/socket.ex keeps every chunk as its own list cell and binary term until IO.iodata_to_binary/1 joins them, and nothing limits the number of chunks. The :length option of read_body/2 counts only data bytes, so tiny chunks cost far more memory than their payload: 48 MB of 1-byte chunks grew one handler process to about 500 MB and took about 6 s of CPU. The route does not need to read the body, because on keep-alive connections ensure_completed/1 drains unread bodies through the same reader. This issue affects bandit: from 0.1.0 before 1.14.0. | |
| Title | HTTP/1.1 chunked request bodies made of 1-byte chunks amplify memory use in Bandit | |
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Mtrudel
Mtrudel bandit |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Mtrudel
Mtrudel bandit |
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cvssV4_0
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