CVE-2026-47067
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. The URL parser in src/hackney_url.erl converts every unrecognized URL scheme to a permanent BEAM atom via binary_to_atom/2. BEAM atoms are never garbage-collected and the atom table defaults to a hard limit of 1,048,576 entries. An attacker who can supply URLs with attacker-chosen scheme prefixes — directly as request targets, as configured webhook URLs, or via Location headers followed during redirects — can exhaust the atom table and crash the entire BEAM VM with system_limit.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| benoitc | hackney | 2.0.0 < 4.0.1 | affected |
| benoitc | hackney | d9713695c0d99855d12c73fd8a0b4be0543950c4 < 31f6f0e27e096ad88743dfded4f030a3ee74972e | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-770: CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: poc
- Automatable: yes
- Technical Impact: partial
Additional References
References
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/security/advisories/GHSA-9653-rcfr-5c62
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-47067.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-47067
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/31f6f0e27e096ad88743dfded4f030a3ee74972e
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