Medium severity · published Oct 15, 2026
CVE-2026-105660
Unvalidated HTTP/1 request-target authority lets a client choose conn.host and conn.port in Bandit
6.9
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BA
bandit · mtrudel
0.6.0 before 1.13.0; 0e3edda0edf6322e9164b827c6d3ddecd080ff2e before 6ea80210137b3f69caf65f67398934259dc365d0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105660
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-105660
cna.erlef.org
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-105660.html
github.com
https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/0e3edda0edf6322e9164b827c6d3ddecd080ff2e
github.com
https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/6ea80210137b3f69caf65f67398934259dc365d0
github.com
https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-v53v-9hvg-37jf
osv.dev
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-105660
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