WebSocket 1-byte continuation frames bypass `max_fragmented_message_size` 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
Lower websocket_options: [max_fragmented_message_size: ...] to the largest fragmented message the application needs, for example 65_536. Memory per connection stays at about 150 times this limit, so a lower limit lowers the ceiling.
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 WebSocket fragment reassembly of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server memory via a fragmented message made of many 1-byte continuation frames. Bandit.WebSocket.Connection checks max_fragmented_message_size against the payload bytes received, but keeps every non-final continuation frame as a new list cell around its own binary, and nothing limits the number of fragments. A 1-byte fragment costs 7 bytes on the wire but about 150 to 170 bytes of server memory, so one connection can hold about 150 times the configured limit, roughly 1.2 to 1.4 GB at the default 8 MB. Ping frames between fragments keep the connection alive past the idle timeout. This issue affects bandit: from 1.11.0 before 1.14.0. | |
| Title | WebSocket 1-byte continuation frames bypass `max_fragmented_message_size` in Bandit | |
| First Time appeared |
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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