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.
Problem types
CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Product status
Any version before 1.11.0
Any version before 1.11.0
Credits
Peter Ullrich
Mat Trudel
Jonatan Männchen
References
github.com/...bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-c67r-gc9j-2qf7
github.com/...bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-c67r-gc9j-2qf7
cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-39805.html
osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-39805
github.com/...ommit/f2ca636eb6df385219957e8934e9fc6efa1630d1