CVE-2026-39807CWE-807

Client-supplied URI scheme trusted without transport verification in bandit

Medium · published May 1, 2026

CVSS v4.0
6.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated transport-state spoofing on plaintext HTTP connections.

'Elixir.Bandit.Pipeline':determine_scheme/2 in lib/bandit/pipeline.ex returns the client-supplied URI scheme verbatim, ignoring the transport's secure? flag. HTTP/1.1 absolute-form request targets (e.g. GET https://victim/path HTTP/1.1) and the HTTP/2 :scheme pseudo-header are both attacker-controlled strings that flow through this function. Over a plaintext TCP connection, a client can declare https and Bandit will set conn.scheme = :https even though no TLS was negotiated.

Downstream Plug consumers that branch on conn.scheme are silently misled: Plug.SSL's already-secure branch skips its HTTP→HTTPS redirect, cookies emitted with secure: true are sent over plaintext, audit logs record requests as having arrived over HTTPS, and CSRF/SameSite gating may make incorrect decisions.

This issue affects bandit: from 1.0.0 before 1.11.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00524 · 43.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-807 · Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision
Published
2026-05-01T20:34Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 20:34Z
    Client-supplied URI scheme trusted without transport verification in bandit
    cvelistv5