CVE-2026-114216: Chunk extensions accept bare LF and CR, enabling request smuggling in Bandit

Published Oct 26, 2026
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Updated

Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling') vulnerability in the HTTP/1.1 chunked body reader of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to smuggle a second request past a front-end proxy via a chunk extension that contains a bare LF.

The chunked reader in lib/bandit/http1/socket.ex takes the chunk-size line to be everything up to the first CRLF and discards everything after ; without checking it against the RFC 9112 chunk-ext grammar, so bare LF, bare CR and other control bytes pass. A proxy that ends the size line at a bare LF reads 2;\nxx\r\n40\r\n... as one request whose second chunk holds a GET /admin, while Bandit ends the body early and dispatches GET /admin as a separate pipelined request. Deployments without such a proxy in front of Bandit are not affected.

This issue affects bandit: from 1.12.4 before 1.14.0.

Affected Software

1 affected component
hex/bandit>=1.12.4<1.14.0

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade mtrudel/bandit to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.14.0

Event History

Oct 26, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·01:30 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·01:30 PM
DescriptionWeakness

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