Medium severity · published Aug 20, 2026
CVE-2026-75484
HTTP/2 header field values containing CR, LF or NUL are passed to the application unvalidated in Bandit
6.9
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to smuggle CR, LF, or NUL characters into application-visible request headers via HTTP/2. Bandit.HTTP2.Stream.read_headers/1 validates pseudo-header placement and uniqueness, header-name casing, connection-specific headers, the te value, and content-length, but never checks field values. Because HPACK carries arbitrary octets, a HEADERS block whose field values contain \r, \n, or \0 decodes without error and the values land in conn.req_headers unchanged. The HTTP/1 path already rejects the same octets; HTTP/2 did not.
Bandit itself is not a sink for the injected bytes: its own logging uses fixed strings or inspect, and HTTP/2 response headers are HPACK-encoded and separately rejected by Plug's put_resp_header, so response splitting is not reachable through this path. The risk is entirely in how a downstream application consumes header values, such as appending one verbatim to a plain-text log or concatenating it into an upstream request. A related gap bundled in the same fix: only :method, :scheme, and :path were checked for at most one occurrence; a duplicate :authority pseudo-header was accepted, with the first instance silently winning as conn.host while a conflicting value remained visible to the application.
This issue affects bandit: from 1.4.0 before 1.12.5.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 53% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BA
bandit · mtrudel
1.4.0 before 1.12.5; fff06efe3be962b484bd4d3eb339372fda5a231f before d38cf046c9a3cae4d0f88001c2ceb4143f86366b · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75484
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-75484
cna.erlef.org
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-75484.html
github.com
https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/d38cf046c9a3cae4d0f88001c2ceb4143f86366b
github.com
https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-x3gh-xhj4-3vq8
osv.dev
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-75484
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