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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-07 | Published 2026-05-01 | Updated 2026-05-02 | Assigner EEF




MEDIUM: 6.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 1.11.0
affected

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 1.11.0
affected

Credits

Peter Ullrich finder

Mat Trudel remediation developer

Jonatan Männchen analyst

References

github.com/...bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-c67r-gc9j-2qf7 exploit

github.com/...bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-c67r-gc9j-2qf7 vendor-advisory related

cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-39805.html related

osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-39805 related

github.com/...ommit/f2ca636eb6df385219957e8934e9fc6efa1630d1 patch

cve.org (CVE-2026-39805)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-39805)

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