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Description
'Elixir.Bandit.Pipeline':determine_scheme/2 in lib/bandit/pipeline.ex returns the client-supplied URI scheme verbatim, ignoring the transport's secure? flag. HTTP/1.1 absolute-form request targets (e.g. GET https://victim/path HTTP/1.1) and the HTTP/2 :scheme pseudo-header are both attacker-controlled strings that flow through this function. Over a plaintext TCP connection, a client can declare https and Bandit will set conn.scheme = :https even though no TLS was negotiated.
Downstream Plug consumers that branch on conn.scheme are silently misled: Plug.SSL's already-secure branch skips its HTTP→HTTPS redirect, cookies emitted with secure: true are sent over plaintext, audit logs record requests as having arrived over HTTPS, and CSRF/SameSite gating may make incorrect decisions.
This issue affects bandit: from 1.0.0 before 1.11.0.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-807
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Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-220
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Client-Server Protocol Manipulation
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / bandit Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / mtrudel/bandit Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Configurations
The vulnerable system must be accepting plaintext (non-TLS) HTTP connections, either directly or via h2c. Deployments that exclusively use TLS are not affected.
References
GHSA-375f-4r2h-f99j ↗
vendor-advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-39807 ↗
related
Credits
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