CVE-2026-105660
Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to set conn.host and conn.port to values outside the RFC 3986 host grammar via the authority of an HTTP/1 absolute-form or…
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Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.62%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to set conn.host and conn.port to values outside the RFC 3986 host grammar via the authority of an HTTP/1 absolute-form or authority-form request target. Bandit validates the Host header and answers 400 when it is malformed, but when the request target carries its own authority that authority takes precedence, as RFC 9112 requires, and Bandit.Pipeline.determine_host_and_port!/4 in lib/bandit/pipeline.ex passes it to the application unchecked. A request line such as GET http://good.example@evil.example/x HTTP/1.1 with a valid Host header yields a conn.host of good.example@evil.example, and the same path admits NUL, DEL and non-ASCII bytes, invalid IP literals and ports outside 1..65535. The HTTP/1.0 clause needs no Host header at all, and CONNECT places the unparsed port string in conn.port. Applications that build absolute URLs from conn.host, such as through Plug.Conn.request_url/1 or Phoenix URL helpers, emit links whose authority the attacker chose. Message framing is unaffected, and no CR or LF can reach conn.host. This issue affects bandit: from 0.6.0 before 1.13.0.
- CVSS 4.0
- 6.9 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.62% probability · 49th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-1286
- Source
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
EPSS moved from 0.5% on 16 October 2026 to 0.6% on 26 October 2026.
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-105660.html
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/0e3edda0edf6322e9164b827c6d3ddecd080ff2e
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/6ea80210137b3f69caf65f67398934259dc365d0
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-v53v-9hvg-37jf
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-105660
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-v53v-9hvg-37jf
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.