Medium severity · published May 1, 2026
CVE-2026-39807
Client-supplied URI scheme trusted without transport verification in bandit
6.3
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 45% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BA
bandit · mtrudel
1.0.0 before 1.11.0; ff2f829326cd5dcf7335939aef9775269d881e28 before 45feea20dea8af7ffd7245271107b695c040e667 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39807
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-39807
cna.erlef.org
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-39807.html
github.com
https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/commit/45feea20dea8af7ffd7245271107b695c040e667
github.com
https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/security/advisories/GHSA-375f-4r2h-f99j
osv.dev
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-39807
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