Описание
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion when WebSocket permessage-deflate compression is enabled.
'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.PerMessageDeflate':inflate/2 in lib/bandit/websocket/permessage_deflate.ex calls :zlib.inflate/2 with no output-size cap, then materializes the entire decompressed payload as a single binary via IO.iodata_to_binary/1. The websocket_options.max_frame_size option only bounds the on-the-wire (compressed) frame size, not the decompressed output. A high-ratio compressed frame (e.g. uniform data at ~1024:1 ratio) can stay well under any wire-size limit while forcing GiB-scale heap allocations in the connection process before any application code runs.
An unauthenticated attacker who can open a WebSocket connection can send a single such frame to exhaust the BEAM node's memory and trigger an OOM kill.
This vulnerability requires both Bandit's server-level websocket_options.compress and the per-upgrade compress: true option passed to WebSockAdapter.upgrade/4 to be enabled. Stock Phoenix and LiveView applications are not affected as they default to compress: false.
This issue affects bandit: from 0.5.9 before 1.11.0.
A flaw was found in bandit. An unauthenticated attacker who can open a WebSocket connection can exploit a vulnerability when WebSocket permessage-deflate compression is enabled. This flaw allows for memory exhaustion by sending a highly compressed frame that, when decompressed, forces large memory allocations. This can lead to a denial of service (DoS) by exhausting the system's memory and causing the application to crash.
Отчет
This IMPORTANT DoS vulnerability in Bandit affects WebSocket connections with permessage-deflate compression enabled. Exploitation requires no authentication and is network-accessible. Impact is high availability loss through memory exhaustion. Stock Phoenix and LiveView applications are not affected as they default to compress: false. Affects Bandit versions 0.5.9 to before 1.11.0.
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Статус:
EPSS
7.5 High
CVSS3
Связанные уязвимости
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion when WebSocket permessage-deflate compression is enabled. 'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.PerMessageDeflate':inflate/2 in lib/bandit/websocket/permessage_deflate.ex calls :zlib.inflate/2 with no output-size cap, then materializes the entire decompressed payload as a single binary via IO.iodata_to_binary/1. The websocket_options.max_frame_size option only bounds the on-the-wire (compressed) frame size, not the decompressed output. A high-ratio compressed frame (e.g. uniform data at ~1024:1 ratio) can stay well under any wire-size limit while forcing GiB-scale heap allocations in the connection process before any application code runs. An unauthenticated attacker who can open a WebSocket connection can send a single such frame to exhaust the BEAM node's memory and trigger an OOM kill. This vulnerability requires both Bandit's server-level
Bandit's unbounded WebSocket inflate causes BEAM OOM with a single frame
EPSS
7.5 High
CVSS3