CVE-2026-39805

CL.CL HTTP request smuggling via duplicate Content-Length in bandit

MEDIUM
6.3
CVSS Score
Published: May 1, 2026 at 08:34 PM UTC
Updated: October 26, 2026 at 10:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBandit

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Severity
MEDIUM6.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
PoC

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

All versions0.1.07bc8d97cd22697c299baa8012b7f419a7606a80c
Vendor states this is fixed in f2ca636eb6df385219957e8934e9fc6efa1630d1 (fixed)
Affected range stops below 1.11.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

6.3MEDIUMEEF
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-444

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