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Description

Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows HTTP request smuggling via duplicate Content-Length headers.

'Elixir.Bandit.Headers':get_content_length/1 in lib/bandit/headers.ex uses List.keyfind/3, which returns only the first matching header. When a request contains two Content-Length headers with different values, Bandit silently accepts it, uses the first value to read the body, and dispatches the remaining bytes as a second pipelined request on the same keep-alive connection. RFC 9112 §6.3 requires recipients to treat this as an unrecoverable framing error.

When Bandit sits behind a proxy that picks the last Content-Length value and forwards the request rather than rejecting it, an unauthenticated attacker can smuggle requests past edge WAF rules, path-based ACLs, rate limiting, and audit logging.

This issue affects bandit: before 1.11.0.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-444 · Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling') in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-33 · HTTP Request Smuggling MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / bandit Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.1.0 < 1.11.0 affected
every other version: unaffected
default status unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.Bandit.Headers'
source files lib/bandit/headers.ex
routines 'Elixir.Bandit.Headers':get_content_length/1

Affected — GitHub / mtrudel/bandit Repository ↗

7bc8d97 < f2ca636 affected
every other version: unaffected
default status unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.Bandit.Headers'
source files lib/bandit/headers.ex
routines 'Elixir.Bandit.Headers':get_content_length/1

References

Credits

Peter Ullrich Finder
Mat Trudel Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Analyst

CVSS breakdown

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