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.
" }, { "base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "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.\n\nBandit 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.\n\nThis issue affects bandit: from 1.4.0 before 1.12.5." } ], "value": "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.\n\nBandit 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. 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