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Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion.

The fragment reassembly path in 'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection':handle_frame/3 in lib/bandit/websocket/connection.ex appends every incoming Continuation{fin: false} frame's payload to a per-connection iolist with no cumulative size cap. The existing max_frame_size option only bounds individual frames; a peer that streams an unbounded number of continuation frames without ever setting fin=1 grows BEAM heap linearly until the OS or a supervisor kills the process.

Because the accumulation happens before WebSock.handle_in/2 is called, the application has no opportunity to interpose a size check. Phoenix Channels and LiveView both run over WebSock on Bandit, so a stock Phoenix application exposes this surface as soon as it accepts socket connections.

This issue affects bandit: from 0.5.0 before 1.11.0.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-130 · Excessive Allocation MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / bandit Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.5.0 < 1.11.0 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection'
source files lib/bandit/websocket/connection.ex
routines 'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection':handle_frame/3

Affected — GitHub / mtrudel/bandit Repository ↗

8909391 < 21612c7 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:mtrudel:bandit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection'
source files lib/bandit/websocket/connection.ex
routines 'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection':handle_frame/3

Configurations

The application must accept WebSocket connections. Applications that expose no WebSocket endpoints 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:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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