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Description

Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated transport-state spoofing on plaintext HTTP connections.

'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 · Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-220 · Client-Server Protocol Manipulation MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / bandit Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

1.0.0 < 1.11.0 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.Bandit.Pipeline'
source files lib/bandit/pipeline.ex
routines 'Elixir.Bandit.Pipeline':determine_scheme/2

Affected — GitHub / mtrudel/bandit Repository ↗

ff2f829 < 45feea2 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.Bandit.Pipeline'
source files lib/bandit/pipeline.ex
routines 'Elixir.Bandit.Pipeline':determine_scheme/2

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

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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