# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-39803"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-13T13:36:09.648Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T15:40:37.538Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-39803"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-39803.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-39803"
title: "HTTP/1 chunked body reader ignores length cap in bandit"
summary: "Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion.\n\nThe chunked clause of 'Elixir.Bandit.HTTP1.Socket':read_data/2 in lib/bandit/http1/socket.ex ignores the caller-supplied :length option when reading HTTP/1 chunked request bodies. Instead of capping the accumulated body at the configured limit (e.g. Plug.Parsers' default 8 MB), do_read_chunked_data!/5 buffers every received chunk into an iolist unconditionally and materializes the entire body as a single binary. The function always returns {:ok, body, ...}, so callers cannot interpose a 413 response.\n\nBecause Plug.Parsers runs before routing and authentication in the standard Phoenix endpoint, an unauthenticated attacker needs no valid route or credentials. Sending a single Transfer-Encoding: chunked POST request with an arbitrarily large body to any path causes the BEAM process to exhaust available memory and be terminated by the OS OOM killer.\n\nThe content-length path in the same function correctly enforces the limit and is not affected.\n\nThis issue affects bandit: from 1.4.0 before 1.11.1."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1.4.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.11.1"}],"vendor":"mtrudel","product":"bandit","packageName":"bandit","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"903e209a521bc216b9f9065c01ae9a0cac2d5a10","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae3520dfdbfab115c638f8c7f6f6b805db34e1ab"}],"vendor":"mtrudel","product":"bandit","packageName":"mtrudel/bandit","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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