CVE-2026-42788
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
6.9
VIR risk
5.5
Description
Bandit HTTP/2 Frame Size Limit Bypass via Late Buffer Check Enables Memory Exhaustion
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-q6v9-r226-v65f
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-42788.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-42788
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/1e8e55966da9129016b73d32f0e1df4630e3b463
- https://hex.pm/packages/bandit
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42788
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q6v9-r226-v65f
CWEs
CWE-770
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.